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carpetbag::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | bag, grip, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
carpetbag:: | Spocien Dictionary
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carpetbag adventurers.
a carpetbag government.
Examples of carpetbag
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General Canby set up a carpetbag government there and turned our State over to this majority.
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Who was the lady hiding her face behind a large black carpetbag?
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The couple McCain is taking stock, and the Great Orator, carpetbag in tow, is on the road again.
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From a carpetbag at his feet, Vorstenbosch produces two porcelain gurines in the Oriental mode.
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During the trip, Lincoln's son Robert was entrusted by his father with a carpetbag containing the speech.
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She was the original supernanny, a practically perfect woman with a magical carpetbag filled with surprises.
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He was surprisingly tall and carried a carpetbag.
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She's the opposite of Mary Poppins, who turns up and shows off and starts pulling things out of her carpetbag.
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Has the all-American genre been smothered in middlebrow blandness by Andrew Lloyd Webber and his carpetbag clones?
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- Following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers; "carpetbag adventurers"; "a carpetbag government"
- Traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century
- (Carpetbagging) In United States history, "carpetbaggers" was a negative term Southerners gave to Northerners (also referred to as Yankees) who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877. ...
- A traveling bag made from carpet scraps used primarily in the United States in the 19^th century; 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; having the characteristics of ...
