carpet-bagn.
1. A travelling bag, properly one made of carpet.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag
cloak-bagc1540
mallet1612
Peter1667
sac de nuit1814
carpet-bag1830
roll-up1831
pikau1836
travelling bag1838
swag1853
suit bag1869
bluey1878
Matilda1889
shiralee1892
port1898
handgrip1915
sea-bag1918
blanket pack1920
weekender1929
valpack1934
weekend bag1946
swag bag1951
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag > hand-held
mailc1275
clothesack1393
cloak-bagc1540
portmanteau1553
valance?a1562
pockmanty1575
cap-case1577
cloak-bearer1580
night baga1618
valisea1630
toilet1656
Roger1665
shirt case1823
weekend case1827
carpet-bag1830
holdall1851
handbag1859
suitcase1873
sample case1875
gripsack1877
case1879
grip1879
Gladstone (bag)1882
traveller1895
vanity-case1913
luggage1915
revelation1923
two-suiter1923
overnight bag1925
one-suiter1933
suiter1933
overnight case1934
Samsonite1939
flight bag1943
Pullman1946
grip-bag1958
overnighter1959
carry-on1960
Vuitton1975
go bag1991
1830 Boston Directory 28 (advt.)
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 173 The new carpet-bag you bought.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. v. 64 Coningsby..had lost the key of his carpet bag.
1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 6 Jan. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) i. 4 Our dozen trunks and half dozen carpet bags being already packed and labelled.
2. Rhyming slang. = drag n. 8b.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > sentence or term of > specific term of (month(s))
stretch1821
moon1830
sices1844
sixer1849
drag1851
carpet1917
carpet-bag1938
pontoon1948
1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad 330 Carpet (or Carpet Bag, or Drag), three months' imprisonment.
Compounds
C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as in carpet-bag adventurer, carpet-bag government, carpet-bag rule (U.S. slang): see carpet-bagger n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [noun] > carpet-bagging
carpet-bag rule1857
carpet-bagging1869
carpet-baggism1872
carpet-baggery1884
society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [adjective] > carpet-bagging
carpet-bag1857
carpet-bagging1904
society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [noun] > carpet-bagging > one who
carpet-bag adventurer1857
carpet-bagger1868
1857 Kansas Herald of Freedom (Lawrence) 19 Sept. (Thornton) Early in the spring several thousand excellent young men came to Kansas. This was jokingly called the carpet-bag emigration.
1870 in A. W. Tourgée Invisible Empire (1880) xii. 504 As to the carpet bag members of the Convention..they were thirteen in number.
1874 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 155 The double curse of negro and carpet-bag rule.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 279 A ring composed of carpet-bag adventurers.
1886 A. V. Dicey England's Case against Home Rule 108 The so-called Carpet Bag Governments, that is..the rule of Northern adventurers who were kept in office throughout the South by the Negro Vote.
C2.
carpet-bag steak n. a steak stuffed with oysters.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > steak dishes
Scots collops1657
Scotch collops1664
porterhouse steak1842
Chateaubriand1877
plank steak1904
steak tartare1911
churrasco1917
Swiss steak1932
tournedos Rossini1937
pepper steak1939
cheesesteak1941
steak au poivre1953
steak Diane1957
carpet-bag steak1958
peppered steak1960
1958 Times 28 Aug. 7/7 At the Gas Council stand she can see ground nut stew, carpet bag steaks, biryani..being prepared.
1969 Times 22 Dec. 9/8 Many ‘foreign’ dishes are really British. Like Australian ‘carpetbag steak’—rare fillet stuffed with oysters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
carpet-bagv.
colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
intransitive. To travel with very little luggage (see also quot. 1889). Also transferred.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel with little luggage
to travel light1864
carpet-bag1872
1872 Trans. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1871 9 266 Almost the entire force of our common schools tends to..send [our young men]..‘carpet bagging’, down South.
1889 Cent. Dict. Carpet-bag, to act or live in the manner of a carpet-bagger. (U.S. slang.)
1890 Congress. Rec. 4 June 5598/2 It has been stated that Mr. McDuffie carpet bagged from somewhere down into Alabama... Now I will tell the House how Judge McDuffie happened to carpet-bag down into that district.
1968 A. Williams Brotherhood i. iv. 51 I don't have to carpet-bag to your kind of publicity, Owen. Now piss-off.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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