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luggage

[luhg-ij]
noun
  1. 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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Related Words for luggages

baggage, paraphernalia, gear, trunk, case, impedimenta, valise, things, carry-on

Examples from the Web for luggages

Historical Examples of luggages

  • But for a four-wheeler as takes families and their luggages, he's the very horse.

    At the Back of the North Wind

    George MacDonald

  • Peppino was present, but effaced himself by helping Carmelo with what he calls my “luggages.”

    Castellinaria

    Henry Festing Jones

British Dictionary definitions for luggages

luggage

noun
  1. suitcases, trunks, etc, containing personal belongings for a journey; baggage
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Word Origin for luggage

C16: perhaps from lug 1, influenced in form by baggage
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Word Origin and History for luggages

luggage

n.

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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