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blue bag

blue bag noun: a lawyer's bag made of blue fabric to carry briefs, now as typically carried by a junior barrister.

Noun

blue bag (plural blue bags)

  1. A lawyer's bag made of blue fabric to carry briefs, now as typically carried by a junior barrister.
    • A battery of blue bags is loaded with heavy charges of papers and carried off by clerks.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
  2. A bag containing alkaline blue laundry powder, used for whitening clothes.
    • ‘Nolly, Nolly,’ observed the Doctor, ‘I wish your maid would stop your foolish mouth with a blue-bag.’1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 73

Forms of blue bag

pluralblue bags

Questions about blue bag

What does blue bag mean?
Blue bag means a lawyer's bag made of blue fabric to carry briefs, now as typically carried by a junior barrister.
What part of speech is blue bag?
Blue bag is a noun.
What is the plural of blue bag?
The plural of blue bag is blue bags.

Words near blue bag in the dictionary

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  8. blue baller
  9. blue ballers
  10. blue balls
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