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- noun Alternative spelling of
holdall .
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Examples
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It is not clear what Mr. Borthwick meant here by the hold-all term “took.”
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Bits and pieces, odds and ends, this and that — whilst pottering about in my flat yesterday morning a single hold-all word for these vague but necessary collective terms, with special application in the kitchen, popped into my head: manavalums.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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When she bent over her capacious hold-all and rummaged around in it, he glimpsed some kind of hideous milking contraption, a plastic bottle attached to a suction cap, that made him turn aside in faint disgust.
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When she bent over her capacious hold-all and rummaged around in it, he glimpsed some kind of hideous milking contraption, a plastic bottle attached to a suction cap, that made him turn aside in faint disgust.
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Bits and pieces, odds and ends, this and that — whilst pottering about in my flat yesterday morning a single hold-all word for these vague but necessary collective terms, with special application in the kitchen, popped into my head: manavalums.
Manavalums 2009
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The effect is that of a slightly withered, tatty, Miss Havisham-esque hold-all.
When It Comes to Style, It's In the Bag Tina Gaudoin 2011
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A hitchhiker, a tall thin fair-haired youth looking not much above twenty, wearing faded jeans and an old leather jacket and carrying a few extra clothes in a canvas hold-all.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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He remembered Johnnie Duke putting his hold-all on the floor behind the front seats, and he remembered him leaning over to pick it up.
The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010
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An omlette, though, is an equally generous hold-all for food bits that need uniting.
Archive 2009-09-01 Annemarie 2009
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An omlette, though, is an equally generous hold-all for food bits that need uniting.
Everything-But-the-Kitchen-Sink Spanish Tortilla Annemarie 2009
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