Satchel vs Handbag - What's the difference?
satchel | handbag |
A bag or case with one or two shoulder straps, especially used to carry books etc.
* "Come, now, take yourselves off, like good boys and girls," he said; and the whole assemblage, dark and light, disappeared through a door into a large verandah, followed by Eva, who carried a large satchel , which she had been filling with apples, nuts, candy, ribbons, laces, and toys of every description, during her whole homeward journey.
(mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway, and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.}}
(uncountable) An anthemic subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals.
(British, transitive, humorous) Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used originally of ).
