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Gladstone. World English Historical Dictionary

Gladstone. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Gladstone subs. (common).—1.  Cheap claret. [Mr. Gladstone, when in office in 1869, reduced the duty on French wines.] See DRINKS.

1   1876.  BESANT and RICE, The Golden Butterfly, ch. ix. Claret certainly good, too—none of your GLADSTONE tap; sherry probably rather coarse.

2   1885.  A. BIRRELL, Obiter Dicta, p. 86. To make him unbosom himself over a bottle of GLADSTONE claret in a tavern in Leicester Square.

3   2.  (colloquial).—A travelling bag. [So named in honour of Mr. Gladstone.]

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