blue bag

noun

A lawyer's bag made of blue fabric to carry briefs, now as typically carried by a junior barrister.

First used 18th c.
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Meanings

nounblue bag (plural blue bags)

plural blue bags

  1. A lawyer's bag made of blue fabric to carry briefs, now as typically carried by a junior barrister.First known use 18th c.

    A battery of blue bags is loaded with heavy charges of papers and carried off by clerks.

    1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
  2. A bag containing alkaline blue laundry powder, used for whitening clothes.First known use 19th c.

    ‘Nolly, Nolly,’ observed the Doctor, ‘I wish your maid would stop your foolish mouth with a blue-bag.’

    1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 73
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