Definition of Dressing case

1. Noun. A small piece of luggage for carrying brushes and bottles and toilet articles while traveling.

Generic synonyms: Baggage, Luggage

Definition of Dressing case

1. Noun. a small luggage bag used to carry various toiletry or first aid items while travelling ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dressing Case

dresserlike
dressers
dresses
dresses down
dresses up
dressest
dresseth
dressier
dressiest
dressily
dressiness
dressinesses
dressing
dressing-bell
dressing-down
dressing case (current term)
dressing cases
dressing down
dressing forceps
dressing gown
dressing gowns
dressing room
dressing rooms
dressing sack
dressing sacque
dressing station
dressing stick
dressing sticks
dressing table
dressing tables

Literary usage of Dressing case

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Great Exhibition, Robert Ellis (1851)
"Ladies' fancy leather work reticule and dressing-case combined; ... Yew-tree dressing- case with Elizabethan silver fittings and ornamente. ..."

2. A Handbook of Rome and Its Environs by John Murray (Firm) (1871)
"ALLEN'S SOLID LEATHER DRESSING-CASE. ALLEN'S NEW DRESSING BAG. ... ALLEN'S SOLID MAHOGANY LADY'S WARDROBE DRESSING-CASE. PORTMANTEAU. ..."

3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1883)
"SURGICAL AND ANTISEPTIC dressing case. Mr. SAMPSON GAMGEE read a paper at the Medical Society of London (Nov. 6th) on the Unity of Surgical Principles in ..."

4. Therapeutic Gazette (1901)
"... and patient was discharged with collodion dressing. CASE XII.—MG Ulcerating gumma of forearm; slough was removed, and wound granulated slowly; ..."

5. Reports of Cases in Chancery, Argued and Determined in the Rolls Court by Baron Henry Bickersteth Langdale, Chaloner William Chute, John Romilly Romilly, Charles Beavan (1860)
"The keys of the dressing-case ... to deliver the watch and trinkets which were in the dressing-case and box to the Plaintiffs. ..."

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