carpetbag
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See also: carpet-bag
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]carpetbag (plural carpetbags)
- A traveling bag made from scraps of carpet and widely used in the United States (and elsewhere) in the 19th century.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 74, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- Pen jumped out of the carriage then, his carpet-bag in hand, and briskly determined to face his fortune.
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[edit]a type of bag
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Verb
[edit]carpetbag (third-person singular simple present carpetbags, present participle carpetbagging, simple past and past participle carpetbagged)
- (chiefly US) To come to a place or organisation with which one has no previous connection with the sole or primary aim of personal gain, especially political or financial gain.
- 2018 February 23, Jason Horowitz, “Italy’s ‘Five Star’ Grows Up Into a Real Party, Scandals and All”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]carpetbag (not comparable)
- (chiefly US) Having the characteristics of carpetbaggers.
- carpetbag travels
Further reading
[edit]- carpet bag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia