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| [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''bagage'', from Middle French, from ''bagues'' belongings, baggage | | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''bagage'', from Middle French, from ''bagues'' belongings, baggage |
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| ''Luggage'' - 1596, from lug (v.) "to drag;" so, lit. "what has to be lugged about" (or, in Johnson's definition, "any thing of more bulk than [[value]]"). In 20c., the usual [[word]] for "baggage belonging to passengers." | | ''Luggage'' - 1596, from lug (v.) "to drag;" so, lit. "what has to be lugged about" (or, in Johnson's definition, "any thing of more bulk than [[value]]"). In 20c., the usual [[word]] for "baggage belonging to passengers." |
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| Luggage is more or less the same concept as "baggage", but is [[normally]] used in relation to the personal baggage of a specific person or persons (e.g. I have lost my luggage, he has [[prepared]] his luggage, but not normally I have lost my baggage, he has prepared his baggage). The [[modern]] traveler can be [[expected]] to have packages containing clothing, toiletries, small possessions, trip necessities, and on the return-trip, [[souvenir]]s. For some, luggage and the [[style]] thereof is [[representative]] of the owner's [[wealth]]. | | Luggage is more or less the same concept as "baggage", but is [[normally]] used in relation to the personal baggage of a specific person or persons (e.g. I have lost my luggage, he has [[prepared]] his luggage, but not normally I have lost my baggage, he has prepared his baggage). The [[modern]] traveler can be [[expected]] to have packages containing clothing, toiletries, small possessions, trip necessities, and on the return-trip, [[souvenir]]s. For some, luggage and the [[style]] thereof is [[representative]] of the owner's [[wealth]]. |
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− | Baggage (not luggage), or baggage train, can also refer to the train of people and [[goods]], both [[military]] and of a [[personal]] nature, which commonly followed pre-modern armies on [[campaign]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baggage] | + | Baggage (not luggage), or baggage train, can also refer to the train of people and [[goods]], both [[military]] and of a [[personal]] nature, which commonly followed pre-modern armies on [[campaign]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baggage] |
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