handbag has definitions from the field of clothing
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[ noun ] (clothing) a bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)

Synonyms

purse bag pocketbook

Examples

"she reached into her bag and found a comb"

Used in print

(Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)

In one cartoon a family is shown outside a theater with the head of the family addressing the doorman : `` Excuse me , but when we came_out we found that we had left my daughter 's handbag and my wife 's behind '' .

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