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carpetbags

carpetbags is the plural 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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Questions about carpetbags

What is carpetbags the plural of?
Carpetbags is the plural of carpetbag.

Words near carpetbags in the dictionary

  1. carpetbaggers
  2. carpetbaggery
  3. carpetbagging
  4. carpetbaggism
  5. carpetbagism
  6. carpetbags
  7. carpetball
  8. carpetbeater
  9. carpetbeaters
  10. carpeted
  11. carpetful

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