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carpet-bag
▪ I. ˌcarpet-ˈbag, n. 1. a. A travelling bag, properly one made of carpet.1830 Boston Directory 28 (Advt.). 1836 Dickens Early Coaches in Sk. Boz II. 173 The new carpet-bag you bought. 1844 Disraeli Coningsby i. v. (R.) Coningsby..had lost the key of his carpet-bag. 1858 Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (... Oxford English Dictionary
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Carpet bag
A carpet bag is a top-opening travelling bag made of carpet, commonly from an oriental rug. It was a popular form of luggage in the United States and Europe in the 19th century, featuring simple handles and only an upper frame, which served as its closure. Some small modern versions are used as hand... wikipedia.org
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carpet-bag
carpet-bagn (formerly) travelling bag made of carpet (旧时)毯制旅行袋. `carpet-bagger n (derog 贬) political candidate, etc who hopes for success in an area where he is not known and is therefore resented (在某地区因无名声而受排斥却希望获胜的)政治上的候选人等. 牛津英汉双解词典
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Urfi Javed poses in dress made from garbage bag, says 'can wear it on ...
Jan 24, 2023After a brief pause due to allergy, Urfi Javed is back to posting pictures of her quirky fashion choices. The model, known for her outlandish outfits, used a garbage bag to make a dress for herself this time. And as soon as Urfi posted the picture of herself in the dress, she was flooded with comments, both positive and slightly mean.
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carpet-bagger
carpet-ˈbagger U.S. Pol. slang. [f. carpet-bag n. + -er.] A scornful appellation applied, after the American Civil War of 1861–5, to immigrants from the Northern into the Southern States, whose ‘property qualification’ consisted merely of the contents of the carpet-bag which they had brought with th... Oxford English Dictionary
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Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber
In 1851, Shillaber became the founding editor of The Carpet-Bag with his business partner Charles G. Halpine. wikipedia.org
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carpet-bagging
ˈcarpet-ˌbagging orig. and chiefly U.S. Travelling with only a carpet-bag to contain one's effects; spec. the practice of a carpet-bagger. Also attrib.1869 Atlantic Monthly June 747 After three weeks' delightful Carpet-Bagging. 1888 Bryce Amer. Commw. iii. lxxv. II. 621 Negro suffrage produced, duri... Oxford English Dictionary
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George Wythe Munford
Hunter, a member of the Virginia State Senate, personally took the carpet-bag to Richmond. "Munford told me that he has taken the carpet-bag up to the cock-loft of the Capitol and had let down the bag between the wall and the plastering, and wikipedia.org
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Robert Barnabas Brough
It was also published, however, a year earlier on the front page of the December 18, 1852 edition of The Carpet-Bag in Boston. wikipedia.org
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John Dennis Phelan
the Alabama Supreme Court in 1851, holding that office for two years until 1853, and then again in 1863-65 when "he was removed by the 'Reconstruction' carpet-bag wikipedia.org
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Chateaubriand
Chateaubriand (ʃætəʊbriːɑ̃ː) The name of Fran{cced}ois René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), French writer and statesman, used attrib. or absol. of a thick fillet beef steak, grilled and garnished with herbs, etc. So à la Chateaubriand.1877 E. S. Dallas Kettner's Bk. Table 6 The steak which ha... Oxford English Dictionary
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Washington Dorsey Gibbs
He was prominent in overthrowing "carpet-bag" rule and restoring white supremacy in Yazoo County, being the originator of the 'white line' movement and wikipedia.org
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biryani
biryani Cookery. (bɪrˈjɑːnɪ, bɪrɪˈɑːnɪ) Also biriani, biriyani, etc. [a. Hindi biryānī, ad. Pers. biryān fried, roasted.] A highly-spiced Indian dish made of meat or vegetables cooked with rice, saffron, and usu. brown lentils.1932 M. R. Anand Curries 81 (heading) Biriani (lamb pulao). Ibid. 83 (hea... Oxford English Dictionary
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Alfred Waud
In the 1850s, he worked variously as an illustrator for a Boston periodical, the Carpet-Bag, and provided illustrations for books such as Hunter's Panoramic wikipedia.org
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John Bartholomew Gough
He set forth, carpet-bag in hand, to tramp through the New England states, glad to obtain even seventy-five cents for a temperance lecture, and soon became wikipedia.org
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