From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], [fro], from [fro], of [en]/[en] origin, probably from
the same ultimate source as [non].[1] Compare also [en]. [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [băg'ĭj] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[-]
1. [en] Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1929 | author=Charles Georges Souli | title=Eastern Shame Girl | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12086
|passage=As soon as they had determined on their course, Ya-nei slid under the
bed, and made himself a place among the BAGGAGES.}}
1. * [en]
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=September 20, 1991 | author=Jonathan Rosenbaum | title=Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective | work=Chicago Reader | url=https://securesite.chireader.com/cgi-bin/Archive/abridged2.bat?path=1991/910920/CASS1
|passage=Alone, she clings to her BAGGAGES on the street.}}
1. * [en]
2. [en] Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.
3. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1846 | author=Henry Francis Cary | title=Lives of the English Poets | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10660
|passage=[Yet he was unreasonable enough to continue his expectations that
Mason should do what he had, without any apparent compunction, omitted to do
himself; for after speaking of Brown, the unfortunate author of Barbarossa,
who was also an ecclesiastic, he adds: "]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.}}
1. * [en]
2. * [en]
3. [en] A woman .
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1828 | author=Various | title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, No. 288 | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/11326
|passage=Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted BAGGAGES) felt for their
master--pitied their poor master!}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1897 | author=Charles Whibley | title=A Book of Scoundrels | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1632
|passage=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.}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1910 | author=Gertrude Hall | title=Chantecler | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10747
|passage=But your perverse attempts to wring blushes from little BAGGAGES in
convenient corners outrage my love of Love!}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1936 | title=Like the Phoenix | author=Anthony Bertram
|passage=However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s
in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet,
harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull,
this BAGGAGE, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep,
demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this
frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say
'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a
policeman.}}
1. * 1964 : _My Fair Lady_ (film)
2. *: Shall we ask this BAGGAGE to sit down or shall we just throw her out of the window?
3. [en] An army's portable equipment; its baggage train .
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1865 | author=Thomas Carlyle | title=History of Friedrich II of Prussia | chapter= | edition= | url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2112
|passage=Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps
near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway
leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and BAGGAGES, to
Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2007 | author=Norman Davies | title=No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939–1945 | page=305 | publisher=Penguin | location=New York
|passage=In Poland, for example, the unknown Bolesław Bierut, who appeared in
1944 in the BAGGAGE of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a
‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee
formerly working for the Comintern.}}
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[luggage]
- Spanish: [es]
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