How To Use Gladstone bag In A Sentence
- Although manteau = cloak and portmanteau = carry + cloak, "portmanteau word" was a coinage by Lewis Carroll, to refer to words like "chortle" chuckle + snort and so called because it resembled the Gladstone bag style of portmanteau, which has two equal compartments that fasten together in the middle. Making Light: Open thread 136
- She carried a large black leather Gladstone bag in her hand.
- She stuffed the toiletries and the Thomas Hardy novel into the Gladstone bag, closed the zip, and straightened up. AN OLDER WOMAN
- The bottom half of that Gladstone bag of mine -- a very efficient recorder, I can tell you. THE LONELY SEA
