Meanings
plural cloak bags
- obsoleteA suitcase or valise.
I was taken and immediately drawne into the bosome of a thicke Wood that was not far-off; there puld from my horse, stripped with all speed, my truncks and clokebags rifled, my box taken, my horses, my equipage, and such things as I had, dispersed and shared amongst them.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12
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