subs. (common).—1. Cheap claret. [Mr. Gladstone, when in office in 1869, reduced the duty on French wines.] See DRINKS.
1876. BESANT and RICE, The Golden Butterfly, ch. ix. Claret certainly good, too—none of your GLADSTONE tap; sherry probably rather coarse.
1885. A. BIRRELL, Obiter Dicta, p. 86. To make him unbosom himself over a bottle of GLADSTONE claret in a tavern in Leicester Square.
2. (colloquial).—A travelling bag. [So named in honour of Mr. Gladstone.]
