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Etymology

From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, baguage, from bague (“bundle, sack”), of Germanic/North Germanic origin, probably from the same ultimate source as Old Norse baggi (“pack, bundle”). Compare also bag. By surface analysis, bag + -age. The old meaning of "nasty woman" likely derives from the sense of "something awkward to be carried" (compare faggot).

derived from bagage
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Definitions

1
Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or…
Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling
- Please put your baggage in the trunk.
- As soon as they had determined on their course, Ya-nei slid under the bed, and made himself a place among the baggages.
- Needless to say, one's seat must be booked in advance and a platoon of urbane officials, one to each door of the train, awaits passengers to usher them to their seats and relieve them of their bulkier baggage.
2
Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to…
Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.
- This person has got a lot of emotional baggage.
- […]How much shall I honour one, who has a stronger propensity to poetry, and has got a greater name in it, if he performs his promise to me of putting away these idle baggages after his sacred espousal.
3
A woman. A female, especially one who is saucy, impudent.
- "Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday, Or never after look me in the face. Speak not; reply not; do not answer me."
- Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages) felt for their master--pitied their poor master!
- But he had a roving eye and a joyous temperament; and though he loved me better than any of the baggages to whom he paid court, he would not visit me so often as he should.
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1. An army's portable equipment
  An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.

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Derived

bag and baggage, baggage agent, baggage car, baggage carousel, baggage cart, baggage check, baggage claim, baggage handler, baggage hold, baggageless, baggageman, baggagemaster, baggager, baggage reclaim, baggage scanner, baggage-smasher, baggage train, baggage van, blind baggage, carry-on baggage, checked baggage, excess baggage, hold baggage, overhead baggage compartment, oversized baggage, way-baggage

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