Gladstone bag

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a stiff-sided travelling bag with a hinged frame that opens flat into two equal compartments

   He packed the papers and a change of clothes in a Gladstone bag.

Named in the nineteenth century after British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, who was associated with this practical form of travelling bag.

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