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单词 left luggage
释义

left luggagen.

Brit. /ˌlɛf(t) ˈlʌɡɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˌlɛf(t) ˈləɡɪdʒ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: left adj.2, luggage n.
Etymology: < left adj.2 + luggage n.
British.
1. Luggage left behind; spec. travellers' luggage left in temporary storage at a railway station, bus station, airport, etc.
ΚΠ
1847 Railway Times 9 Jan. 53/2 The clerk who has care of the left luggage..conjectured it [sc. a brown paper parcel] might contain something of value.
1868 Sat. Rev. 5 Dec. 755/2 The baronet jumps out of the window and leaves his luggage; the escaped prisoner follows suit, but takes the left luggage with him, a change of dress being a matter of urgent necessity to him.
1924 Kenya Gaz. 1 Sept. 1017 (heading) List of left luggage lying in the Kilindini Baggage Room to be sold on 4th October, 1924.
1963 Passenger Transport June 343/2 Every facility has been provided for the comfort of the passengers by having..facilities for left luggage and parcel traffic.
2013 A. Lambert Switzerland without Car (ed. 5) ii. 20 Most large stations have both an office for left luggage and banks of lockers.
2. Often without article. A place where left luggage may be stored temporarily, usually for a small charge.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > storage of luggage
baggage-room1819
left luggage1894
luggage locker1969
overhead1996
society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > depository for luggage
left luggage office1856
consigne1897
left luggage1963
1894 F. D. Lugard Diary 28 July (1963) IV. 61 Found my way to the docks, stowed all gear in left luggage in office on pier.
1963 P.M.L.A. Dec. p. vii/2 (list) U.K. left luggage: U.S. baggage room.
1971 ‘E. Candy’ Words for Murder Perhaps xiii. 158 He..came straight back, leaving his case and holdall in the left luggage.
1988 F. M. Parsons & D. L. Chitwood I didn't hear Dragon Roar iii. 31 I felt uneasy about leaving my bags in the dorm when I was out, so I generally left them downstairs at ‘left luggage’ for half a yuan a day.
2014 P. Walker Some here among Us iii. 142 Race walked down to the station and took his bag from the left-luggage.

Compounds

General attributive, as left luggage locker, left luggage office, left luggage ticket, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > depository for luggage
left luggage office1856
consigne1897
left luggage1963
1856 Jrnl. Gas Lighting 4 Mar. 126/2 This box and its contents were not conveyed to the company's office till the 23rd of July. This Mr. Edwards can satisfy himself of by applying at the Left Luggage Office, Lime Street Station.
1857 Railway Times 28 Feb. 313/2 The ticket..was an ordinary left-luggage ticket.
1861 H. Rhys Theatr. Trip for Wager xi. 96 Arrived at the depôt, I discovered in the doubtful light the ‘left luggage’ room.
1888 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 13 53 Left-luggage offices..for luggage brought to the station.
1918 Era Annual 152/2 (cast list) Left Luggage Attendant... Mr. George Errol.
1929 ‘G. Daviot’ Man in Queue xv. 202 Having obtained the necessary authority to open any luggage that Sorrell might have left, he repaired to the left-luggage room.
1949 Illustr. London News 26 Nov. 810 For the traveller in a hurry: the individual left-luggage lockers at Euston Station, London.
1951 Police Jrnl. 24 29 Also in Rodgers's possession were found ‘left luggage’ tickets for two suitcases deposited in the left luggage office at Barnsley Bus Station.
1969 N. Bethell & B. Burg tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Cancer Ward II. ii. 33 I know who to go to at every station, how to find where the right tea-brewer or left-luggage man is.
1981 L. Perdue Delphi Betrayal xxvii. 279 A receipt for an item stored at the Left Luggage counter at the Hauptbahnhof, Munich.
2006 P. Cole Myth of Evil v. 112 It [sc. the head of Jeremy Bentham] was once discovered in a left-luggage locker at Dundee railway station.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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