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Glad⋅stone

  [glad-stohn, -stuhn]
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–noun
1. a four-wheel pleasure carriage with a calash top, two inside seats, and dickey seats.
2. Gladstone bag.
Origin:
1860–65; after W.E. Gladstone
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Glad⋅stone

  [glad-stohn, -stuhn]
–noun
1. William Ew⋅art  [yoo-ert] , 1809–98, British statesman: prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894.
2. a city in NW Missouri. 24,990.

Gladstone bag

 
–noun
a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
Also called Gladstone.

Origin:
1880–85; after W.E. Gladstone
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Glad·stone   (glād'stōn', -stən)   
n.  

  1. A light four-wheeled convertible carriage with two interior seats and places outside for a driver and footman.

  2. A Gladstone bag.


[After William Ewart Gladstone.]
Gladstone, William Ewart 1809-1898.  
British political leader who served as Liberal prime minister four times (1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886, and 1892-1894). He enacted educational and parliamentary reforms and supported Irish home rule.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Gladstone

city, eastern Queensland, eastern Australia, on Port Curtis, an inlet of the Coral Sea. Originally settled in 1847 as a colony by the New South Wales government, it was abandoned in 1848 but was resettled by squatters in 1853. It became a municipality in 1863 and was named for W.E. Gladstone, the British statesman. A tourist centre for the Great Barrier Reef, it is located in a cattle and dairy region. Its fine natural harbour, with anchorages of up to 70 feet (20 metres), was a mustering place for convoys during World War II. Rapid postwar development was based on the export of coal to Japan (from the Kiang-Moura field), aluminum (reduced from bauxite deposits at Weipa), sulfuric acid, and meat products. Pop. (2001) 26,625.

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