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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century..
Pen jumped out of the carriage then, his carpet-bag in hand, and briskly determined to face his fortune.
The Five Star Movement has long railed against carpetbagging, but for all of Ms. D’Alessandro’s efforts to seem of the place — talking about her childhood in Naples and showing the bar where she had her first date — she clearly isn’t.
carpetbag travels
Use carpetbag when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Carpetbag means A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19ᵗʰ century..
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Pen jumped out of the carriage then, his carpet-bag in hand, and briskly determined to face his fortune.
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