luggage

[ luhg-ij ]

/ ˈlʌg ɪdʒ /

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noun

suitcases, trunks, etc.; baggage.

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Origin of luggage

First recorded in 1590–1600; lug¹ + -age

Related formslug·gage·less, adjective

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And when they did stop him and look in his luggage what did they find?
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Last year, U.S. airlines bagged over 3.5 billion dollars in luggage fees.
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Customs and Border Protection airing the dirty laundry in our luggage.
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He caught his breath for one bewitched moment, before he busied himself with the luggage on the rack.
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We met porters struggling up the height with luggage on their backs, and fat women riding depressed mules.
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The most comfortable way to travel would be to take ox wagons for the luggage and the camping outfit.
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Sometimes, indeed, it did occur to him that he could not be a luggage boy all his lifetime.
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The luggage is all in the carriage, and Maulevrier says there is only just time to get to Windermere!'
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British Dictionary definitions for luggage

luggage

/ (ˈlʌɡɪdʒ) /

noun

suitcases, trunks, etc, containing personal belongings for a journey; baggage

Word Origin for luggage

C16: perhaps from lug 1, influenced in form by baggage

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Word Origin and History for luggage

luggage

1590s, from lug (v.) "to drag" + -age; so, literally "what has to be lugged about" (or, in Johnson's definition, "any thing of more weight than value"). In 20c., the usual word for "baggage belonging to passengers."

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