baggage

sostantivo

1. 1

   Portable cases, large bags, and similar equipment for manually carrying, pushing, or pulling personal items while traveling

   Please put your baggage in the trunk.

   As soon as they had determined on their course, Ya-nei slid under the bed, and made himself a place among the baggages.

   Needless to say, one's seat must be booked in advance and a platoon of urbane officials, one to each door of the train, awaits passengers to usher them to their seats and relieve them of their bulkier baggage.

   Alone, she clings to her baggages on the street.

2. 2

   informaleFactors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively.

   This person has got a lot of emotional baggage.

   […]How much shall I honour one, who has a stronger propensity to poetry, and has got a greater name in it, if he performs his promise to me of putting away these idle baggages after his sacred espousal.

   "For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector. It will mean you can have a whole-industry approach to running the railway, unencumbered by contractual differences."

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   obsoletoA woman. A female, especially one who is saucy, impudent.

   "Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o’ Thursday, Or never after look me in the face. Speak not; reply not; do not answer me."

   Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages) felt for their master--pitied their poor master!

   But he had a roving eye and a joyous temperament; and though he loved me better than any of the baggages to whom he paid court, he would not visit me so often as he should.

   But your perverse attempts to wring blushes from little baggages in convenient corners outrage my love of Love!

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   An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.

   Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and baggages, to Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross.

   In Poland, for example, the unknown Bolesław Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a ‘non-party figure’ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.

Forme

plurale

baggages