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Handbag   Listen
noun
handbag  n.  A small bag usually made of cloth, leather or a similar imitation material, and often having a strap to permit carrying it by slinging it over a shoulder, used by women to carry money and small personal items or accessories; as, she had to search under the cosmetics, hankies, and medicines in her handbag to find a comb.
Synonyms: bag, pocketbook, purse.






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"Handbag" Quotes from Famous Books



... me,' I said, 'that the American had gone down a side street. Yet he evidently met a second man, obtained from him the handbag, turned back, and got into the closed cab ...
— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr

... had a delightful nature, with a marked but not unpleasant "old-maidish" element in it. For instance, no mortal eye had ever beheld him without a little black handbag. Wherever Arthur Cecil went the little bag went with him. There was much speculation amongst his friends as to what the contents of this mysterious receptacle might be. Many people averred, in view of his notoriously large appetite, ...
— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton



Words linked to "Handbag" :   purse, etui, container, clasp, shoulder bag, reticule, bag, clutch



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