sponge bag

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sponge bag (plural sponge bags)

  1. (UK, Australia) A bag for carrying toiletries, as when travelling. [from 19th c.]
  2. (chiefly UK) Designating clothing (especially trousers) with a fine, faint black-and-white check pattern. [from 20th c.]
    • 1934 May 8, Virginia Woolf, Diary:
      In every hotel in Ireland sits a military man with [] a loud commanding voice, & spongebag coat & red slippers.
    • 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 36:
      Below her a small boat puttered quietly at the landing stage, and the chef appeared, in his sponge bag trousers and his white jacket, to tale the day's delivery of fresh perch.

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