Marilyn Monroe in a dress made of a potato sack, 1952.
wheelie bag came to symbolise the era of mass travel, gunwale,
Luggage unpacks how international travel has changed down the ages. Adventurers in the 15th-century age of discovery set sail in galleons loaded to the gunwales with supplies for voyages that might take years. Aristocrats on a “grand tour” in the 18th century trekked around Europe for months in horse-drawn carriages packed with trunks, servants and even furniture. The suitcase arrived at the end of the 19th century when spending several weeks abroad became more common for the wealthy. By the 1970s tourists and executives needed to cart the wherewithal for a few nights away through vast airports. And so the wheelie-bag came to symbolise the era of mass travel.
The gunwale (/ˈɡʌnəl/) is the top edge of the hull of a ship or boat.[1]
Originally the structure was the "gun wale" on a sailing warship, a horizontal reinforcing band added at and above the level of a gun deck to offset the stresses created by firing artillery.
Over time it remained as a valuable stiffener mounted inboard of the sheer strake on commercial and recreational craft. In modern boats, it is the top edge of the hull where there is usually some form of stiffening, often in the form of traditional wooden boat construction members called the "inwale" and "outwale".
Meaning of wheelie bag in English · Carry-on wheelie bags took up almost all the overhead locker space on every flight. · Never take one of those stupid wheelie bags that you pull along to the old town. ·
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