Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bag in which a cloak or other clothes are carried; a portmanteau.
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Examples
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• "Thou stuffed cloak-bag of guts, thou vanity in years!"
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults Ken Adelman 2010
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• "Thou stuffed cloak-bag of guts, thou vanity in years!"
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults Ken Adelman 2010
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• "Thou stuffed cloak-bag of guts, thou vanity in years!"
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Candidate Insults Ken Adelman 2010
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Their only attendant was a page, who, riding a Spanish jennet, which seemed to bear a heavy cloak-bag, followed them at a respectful distance.
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Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years?
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It was one cool refreshing evening, at the close of a very sultry day, in the latter end of the month of August, when a stranger, mounted upon a dark mule, with a small cloak-bag behind him, containing a few shirts, a pair of shoes, and a crimson-sattin pair of breeches, entered the town of Strasburg.
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The moment the stranger alighted, he ordered his mule to be led into the stable, and his cloak-bag to be brought in; then opening, and taking out of it his crimson-sattin breeches, with a silver-fringed — (appendage to them, which I dare not translate) — he put his breeches, with his fringed cod - piece on, and forth-with, with his short scymetar in his hand, walked out to the grand parade.
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Zen I taket my cloak-bag ant money, ant jompet out of ze vintow.
Boyhood 2003
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It was one cool refreshing evening, at the close of a very sultry day, in the latter end of the month of August, when a stranger, mounted upon a dark mule, with a small cloak-bag behind him, containing a few shirts, a pair of shoes, and a crimson-sattin pair of breeches, entered the town of Strasburg.
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The moment the stranger alighted, he ordered his mule to be led into the stable, and his cloak-bag to be brought in; then opening, and taking out of it his crimson-sattin breeches, with a silver-fringed — (appendage to them, which I dare not translate) — he put his breeches, with his fringed cod-piece on, and forth-with, with his short scymetar in his hand, walked out to the grand parade.
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