drawstring bag
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈdrɔːstrɪŋ bæg/
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bolsa con cordón
- Meanwhile, she carried her dancing slippers in a blue satin drawstring bag with a mirror sewn into its bottom.
- a velvet drawstring bag
- a small drawstring bag
Examples
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Maverick's saddlebag as he goes to it opens it and takes out his leather drawstring bag.
Fiction book (1994) -
And it's like a one of these kind of drawstring bags where you pull these and it tightens.
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Bag Making Basics: Bucket Bag & Drawstring Bag
Blog text (22) -
A knot as in string, a drawstring bag or sack?
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I'll also show you how to make an embellished drawstring bag.
Blog text (22) -
It's the little drawstring bag and it's velvet little Gucci number.
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She has a kit, a wooden box with four velvet drawstring bags inside.
Fiction book (1998) -
Then he would pull out a small cloth drawstring bag, of the type that smoking tobacco came in, from the other pocket, put his shooter into it, and tuck it carefully back in.
Academic text (2003) -
People are always looking for tutorials for totes, zipper pouches, and drawstring bags.
Blog text (22) -
She packed her gym clothes into a drawstring bag for easy carrying.
Synonyms
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7.1
A long round bag with a drawstring used by sailors to carry clothes and personal items
Surface Forms
Morphology
drawstring + bag
The meaning is directly compositional: 'drawstring' can be parsed as a string you 'draw' (pull) and 'bag' is a container, so a bag closed by pulling a string is transparently derived from the parts. This compound follows common English noun+modifier patterns and has clear parallels in many languages (e.g., 'bolsa con cordón'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand it.
Etymology
The name drawstring bag comes from old small pouches that were 'closed' by a cord you had to 'pull'. The name joins draw (to 'pull') and string (the cord), so it means 'a bag closed at the top by pulling a cord'.