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Gladstone bag
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Definition:a small portmanteau made of stiff leather
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I lit a cigarette and got all dressed and then I packed these two Gladstones I have.
J.D. Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye, p.67 (1945)
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He'd step in the front door and put down his Gladstone (that's what he called it) and look around for Bailey and me.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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"If he were to take them now, you know, he'd meet all the church-people." "Is it taboo, then, to face the clergy with a Gladstone bag?" Bertram asked quite seriously, in that childlike tone of simple inquiry that Philip had noticed more than once before in him. "Your bonzes object to meet a man with luggage? They think it unlucky?"
Grant Allen. The British Barbarians
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(Accompanied by two blackmasked assistants, advances with gladstone bag which he opens.)
James Joyce. Ulysses
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In the glove compartment— or in the Gladstone bag?
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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