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cloak bags

cloak bags is the plural of cloak bag.

Meaning of cloak bag

Noun

cloak bag (plural cloak bags)

  1. (obsolete) A suitcase or valise.
    • I was taken and immediately drawne into the bosome of a thicke Wood that was not far-off; there puld from my horse, stripped with all speed, my truncks and clokebags rifled, my box taken, my horses, my equipage, and such things as I had, dispersed and shared amongst them.1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12

Questions about cloak bags

What is cloak bags the plural of?
Cloak bags is the plural of cloak bag.

Words near cloak bags in the dictionary

  1. cloacinids
  2. cloacins
  3. cloacitis
  4. cloak
  5. cloak bag
  6. cloak bags
  7. cloak fern
  8. cloak ferns
  9. cloak room
  10. cloak rooms
  11. cloak-and-dagger

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