Gladstone Defined

Jørgen Andreas Bangor jorgenb at ifi.uio.no
Wed Oct 18 20:40:30 CET 1995


Wes:

| The discussion on the meaning of Gladstone led me to an American dictionary
| where it said:
| 
| "a travelling bag with flexible sides on a rigid frame that opens flat into
| two compartments"

I wonder if we have the same dictionary:

  /home/surt/b/jorgenb>def gladstone
  glad.stone (n)
  ('glad-.st{o-}n, [italic chiefly Brit] -st*n)
     i[often cap]
  Etymology: W. E. Gladstone {dagger}1898 Brit. statesman
     n, a traveling bag with flexible sides on a rigid frame that opens
     into two compartments


  /home/surt/b/jorgenb>man def
  
  DEF(1)                                                     DEF(1)
  
  NAME
         def   -   define  a  word,  using  Webster's  7th  edition
         dictionary


Now to find an excuse to send this... 



   Jorgen



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