carpet-bag

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carpet-bag (plural carpet-bags)

  1. Archaic form of carpetbag.
    • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Mr. Dombey goes upon a Journey”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1848, →OCLC, page 197:
      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, []
    • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Chapter of Match-making”, in The History of Pendennis. [], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1850, →OCLC, page 346:
      [] 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.”
    • 1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “East Wind”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd [], →OCLC, page 13:
      From the carpet-bag she took out seven flannel nightgowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album.