dressing case

• dressing-case

dressing case (plural dressing cases)

1. A small luggage bag used to carry various toiletry or first aid items while travelling.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     This done, he got my travelling dressing-case out of the Gladstone bag, and opened it ready for my use.

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

     He struck a match, and I perceived that this young aristocrat had not only a silver–mounted dressing–case but also a whole candle all to himself.

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 3, in Jacob's Room:

     She touched the spring of her dressing-case, and ascertained that the scent-bottle and a novel from Mudie's were both handy