carpet-bag

See also: carpetbag

English

Noun

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, Mary Poppins, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 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.