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blue bag en · NOUN
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A lawyer's bag made of blue fabric to carry briefs, now as typically carried by a junior barrister.
A battery of blue bags is loaded with heavy charges of papers and carried off by clerks.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
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A bag containing alkaline blue laundry powder, used for whitening clothes.
‘Nolly, Nolly,’ observed the Doctor, ‘I wish your maid would stop your foolish mouth with a blue-bag.’
1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 73:
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