gladstone bag

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   a large travelling bag made of stiff leather

   SynonymsportmanteauGladstone

   Broaderbag

Questions about gladstone bag

What does gladstone bag mean?

gladstone bag means "a large travelling bag made of stiff leather".

What is another word for gladstone bag?

Close synonyms include portmanteau, Gladstone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gladstone bag a common word?

gladstone bag is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.