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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