Synonyms for handbag


Grammar : Noun
Spell : hand-bag
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhændˌbæg

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Définition of handbag

Origin :
  • also hand-bag, 1854, from hand (n.) + bag (n.).
  • noun person's carryall
Example sentences :
  • Slowly she untied the scarf from the door and placed it in her handbag.
  • Extract from : « Jennie Baxter, Journalist » by Robert Barr
  • She packed into a handbag a few necessary things with some heirlooms of her own.
  • Extract from : « Bride of the Mistletoe » by James Lane Allen
  • She took the two threatening letters from her handbag and gave them to the detective.
  • Extract from : « The Film of Fear » by Arnold Fredericks
  • Her hands shook so that she could scarcely open her handbag.
  • Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower
  • In the third act one of the characters has to take his trousers out of a handbag.
  • Extract from : « Pipefuls » by Christopher Morley
  • My handbag, for certain reasons, I carried with me unlocked.
  • Extract from : « Tom, Dick and Harry » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • She, too, gave me a conspiratorial wink and patted her handbag.
  • Extract from : « Sense from Thought Divide » by Mark Irvin Clifton
  • She put the envelope into her handbag, and just then "the girls" trooped in from the Camp.
  • Extract from : « The Petticoat Commando » by Johanna Brandt
  • She saw him slip a twenty-dollar bill into her handbag with her ticket.
  • Extract from : « My Antonia » by Willa Cather
  • He caught her handbag from her, and instantly something snapped in it.
  • Extract from : « Long Live the King » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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