dressing case
noun1
A small luggage bag used to carry various toiletry or first aid items while travelling.
- This done, he got my travelling dressing-case out of the Gladstone bag, and opened it ready for my use.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- He struck a match, and I perceived that this young aristocrat had not only a silver–mounted dressing–case but also a whole candle all to himself.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:
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- She touched the spring of her dressing-case, and ascertained that the scent-bottle and a novel from Mudie's were both handy1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 3, in Jacob's Room: