shopping bag

a strong, usually paper or plastic, bag with handles, used to carry purchases or belongings.

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First recorded in 1925–30

I had a clipping in my shopping-bag cut from the morning paper.
The Fifth Wheel|Olive Higgins Prouty
The visitor produced from her shopping-bag the written announcement of the Recreation Club play.
The Clarion|Samuel Hopkins Adams
I stood for a moment looking at the group and fingering the handle of my shopping-bag nervously.
At the Age of Eve|Kate Trimble Sharber
Helen declined the one offered her, and drew a book from her shopping-bag.
A Book of Bryn Mawr Stories|Marian T. MacIntosh

Octavia found her shopping-bag, and drew from it a long envelope filled with typewritten documents.
Whirligigs|O. Henry