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blue bags

blue bags is the plural of blue bag.

Meaning of blue bag

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

Questions about blue bags

What is blue bags the plural of?
Blue bags is the plural of blue bag.

Words near blue bags in the dictionary

  1. blue baby
  2. blue baby syndrome
  3. blue badge
  4. blue badges
  5. blue bag
  6. blue bags
  7. blue baller
  8. blue ballers
  9. blue balls
  10. Blue Banana
  11. Blue Bay

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