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carpet-bag

carpet-bag is the archaic form of carpetbag.

Meaning of carpetbag

Noun

carpetbag (plural carpetbags)

  1. A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century.
    • Pen jumped out of the carriage then, his carpet-bag in hand, and briskly determined to face his fortune.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 74, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...

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Forms of carpet-bag

pluralcarpet-bags

Questions about carpet-bag

What is carpet-bag the archaic form of?
Carpet-bag is the archaic form of carpetbag.

Words near carpet-bag in the dictionary

  1. carpet vipers
  2. carpet washer
  3. carpet washers
  4. carpet whip
  5. carpet whips
  6. carpet-bag
  7. carpet-bags
  8. carpet-beater
  9. carpet-beaters
  10. carpet-bomb
  11. carpet-bombed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carpet-bag (page history and authors); carpetbag (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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