holdalln.
1. A portable case for holding clothes and miscellaneous articles required by soldiers, marines, travellers, etc.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag > hand-held
mailc1275
clothesack1393
cloak-bagc1540
portmanteau1553
valance?a1562
pockmanty1575
cap-case1577
cloak-bearer1580
night baga1618
valisea1630
toilet1656
Roger1665
shirt case1823
weekend case1827
carpet-bag1830
holdall1851
handbag1859
suitcase1873
sample case1875
gripsack1877
case1879
grip1879
Gladstone (bag)1882
traveller1895
vanity-case1913
luggage1915
revelation1923
two-suiter1923
overnight bag1925
one-suiter1933
suiter1933
overnight case1934
Samsonite1939
flight bag1943
Pullman1946
grip-bag1958
overnighter1959
carry-on1960
Vuitton1975
go bag1991
1851 Orders & Regulations Royal Engineers (rev. ed.) xxiv. 119 The Knapsack is to contain the Great Coat, one Shirt, one pair of Stockings, Cloth and Shoe Brushes, Blacking, and Hold-all complete.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 164 1 leather cartouch, 1 holdall.
1883 C. J. Wills In Land of Lion & Sun 55 An india-rubber soldier's hold-all.
1895 Athenæum 17 Aug. 220/1 To spend a fortnight attired in riding habits,..with holdalls hanging like wallets over the saddles.
2. figurative, esp. with reference to books of the omnibus or encyclopædic kind.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > regarded as the result of labour > large or important
opus magnum1704
magnum opus1791
holdall1903
heavyweight1928
1903 Daily Chron. 9 Nov. 3/3 There is a little of everything in the hold-all.
1904 M. Davies (title) The housewife's what's what: a hold-all of useful information for the house.
1964 Economist 29 Aug. 828/2 That comfortable hold-all, ceteris paribus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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