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sponge bag (plural sponge bags)
- (UK, Australia) A bag for carrying toiletries, as when travelling.
- (chiefly UK) Designating clothing (especially trousers) with a fine, faint black-and-white check pattern.
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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