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Gladstone|ˈglædstən|
[f. the name of William E. Gladstone (1808–98).]
Used attrib. or ellipt. to designate certain articles. a. Gladstone (claret): a jocular name given to the cheap French wines, the importation of which greatly increased in consequence of the reduction in Customs duty made by Gladstone while Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1860.
1864Athenæum 558/3 The word ‘Gladstone’ will probably continue to indicate those French wines which his Act cheapened for the general market. 1871Trollope Ralph the Heir iii, Yes, we've got sherry, and port wine, and Gladstone. 1884A. Birrell Obiter Dicta Ser. i. 86 To make him unbosom himself over a bottle of Gladstone claret.
b. Gladstone (bag): a light kind of portmanteau or travelling-bag.
1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. i. 11 Hamleigh's servant sitting behind, walled in by a portmanteau and a Gladstone-bag. 1887E. J. Goodman Too Curious vi, With his Gladstone-bag in his hand. 1889J. K. Jerome 3 Men in Boat iv. 54 We got a big Gladstone for the clothes.
c. ‘A roomy four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman’ (Webster 1864). |