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  • noun Plural form of holdall.

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Examples

  • Simple, elegant and essential, you'll want to hold on to these holdalls

    The edit . . . colour block 2011

  • Later forensic analysis by an independent laboratory established that the bombs had in fact been contained in leather holdalls, an inconvenience that in no way interfered with the juggernaut of conviction.

    The Birmingham Six: Have we learned from our disgraceful past? 2011

  • Large ones, small ones, pink Disney ones, suitcases on wheels, holdalls, pushchairs and car seats.

    part-time mummy 2005

  • Twenty-seven Lithuanians and Latvians were then allowed to leave with their meagre possessions in suitcases, holdalls and bin liners.

    Tip of the iceberg Richard 2005

  • Money people carry in Reebok holdalls in nightclub car parks.

    Incendiary Chris Cleave 2005

  • Large ones, small ones, pink Disney ones, suitcases on wheels, holdalls, pushchairs and car seats.

    baggage 2005

  • So I went to Argos (good old Argos!) and bought two amazingly cheap holdalls (will they break on the way & nbspthere or the way & nbspback, d'you think?!).

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2002

  • They had only their hand luggage, two small cheap nylon holdalls that they had bought that morning at a street market.

    The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995

  • We have got our baggage (kit-bags and holdalls) down to the station at the Red Cross Anglaise, and are sitting in our quarters waiting for the word to come that No. -- train is in.

    Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous

  • _ -- We five got into the train at La Baule with kit-bags and holdalls, with the farewells of Matron and our friends, at 9.30 this morning.

    Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous

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