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Baggage   /bˈægədʒ/  /bˈægɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
baggage  n.  
1.
The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army. Note: "The term itself is made to apply chiefly to articles of clothing and to small personal effects."
2.
The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. "The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach." "We saw our baggage following below." Note: The English usually call this luggage.
3.
Purulent matter. (Obs.)
4.
Trashy talk. (Obs.)
5.
A man of bad character. (Obs.)
6.
A woman of loose morals; a prostitute. "A disreputable, daring, laughing, painted French baggage."
7.
A romping, saucy girl. (Playful)





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"Baggage" Quotes from Famous Books



... pens of the eighteenth century, Aretino had the advantage that he was not burdened with principles, neither with liberalism nor philanthropy nor any other virtue, nor even with science; his whole baggage consisted of the well-known motto, 'Veritas odium parit.' He never, conse- quently, found himself in the false position of Voltaire, who was forced to disown his 'Pucelle' and conceal all his life the authorship of other works. ...
— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt
... a servant to my first wife," moodily. "I got rid of the baggage quick enough, when Mrs. Arthur died. She is an old viper, and put more disobedience into that girl Madeline's head, than I ever ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... wavering smoke My shapely Malvern Hills. That was the last hail-storm to trouble spring: He came in gloomy haste, Pusht in front of the white clouds quietly basking, In such a hurry he tript against the hills And stumbling forward spilt over his shoulders All his black baggage held, Streaking downpour of hail. Then fled dismayed, and the sun in golden glee And the high white clouds ...
— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various
... the fighting ended, and the subsequent operations were confined to "rounding up" prisoners and to the capture of a considerable amount of military material left behind. The Turks who departed with their guns and baggage during the night of the 3d still seemed to be ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... before a bomb burst in among us (this was the first we had heard of the bombardment of the night before). The Commandant put it to us as we sat there: Whether would we leave that dining-room at once and pack our baggage all over again, and bundle out, and go hunting for rooms all through Ostend with the lights out, and perhaps fall into the harbour; or stay where we were and risk the off-chance of a bomb? And we were all very tired ...
— A Journal of Impressions in Belgium • May Sinclair


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