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Handbag   /hˈændbˌæg/   Listen
noun
handbag  n.  A small bag usually made of cloth, leather or a similar imitation material, and often having a strap to permit carrying it by slinging it over a shoulder, used by women to carry money and small personal items or accessories; as, she had to search under the cosmetics, hankies, and medicines in her handbag to find a comb.
Synonyms: bag, pocketbook, purse.






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"Handbag" Quotes from Famous Books



... care which it was, however, when he called the next morning and found Miss Merriam waiting for him. She was well tailored and her handbag was all ...
— Ethel Morton's Holidays • Mabell S. C. Smith

... at the depot and went to the Waymore bank to attend to some business. When he returned, he told her that he would have to stay overnight there, but she could go on home. He bought her ticket and put her on the train. She saw him slip a twenty-dollar bill into her handbag with her ticket. That bill, she said, should have aroused her suspicions ...
— My Antonia • Willa Sibert Cather

... her her vouchers. She put them in her handbag and somehow got round a perambulator, and the two went ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller

... "timorously"? Let him who knows decide where true courage lies!) they both compelled themselves to talk of something else—of the stars of the candles, trembling in a reek, of the organ playing a prelude. Of the beadle who was passing. Of the box full of surprises which her handbag was, in which the indiscreet fingers of Pierre were rummaging. They had a very passion of amusing themselves with nothings. Neither one nor the other of these poor little creatures so much as considered ...
— Pierre and Luce • Romain Rolland

... so," replied Harley, and gave him a card. "Inform her that I wish to return to her a handbag which she lost a ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer


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