carpet-bag

Definitions

1. 1

   Archaic form of carpetbag.

   • The Native had previously packed, in all possible and impossible parts of Mr. Dombey’s chariot, which was in waiting, an unusual quantity of carpet-bags and small portmanteaus, […]
   • […] the train arrived, the train sped on, the London lights came in view—a gentleman who forgot his carpet-bag in the train rushed at a cab, and said to the man, “Drive as hard as you can go to Jermyn Street.”

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