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bag⋅gage

  [bag-ij]
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–noun
1. trunks, suitcases, etc., used in traveling; luggage.
2. the portable equipment of an army.
3. things that encumber one's freedom, progress, development, or adaptability; impediments: intellectual baggage that keeps one from thinking clearly; neurotic conflicts that arise from struggling with too much emotional baggage.
4. Disparaging and Offensive.
a. a woman.
b. a prostitute or disreputable woman.
5. Often Offensive. a pert, playful young woman or girl.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME bagage < MF, equiv. to OF bag(ues) bundles, packs (perh. < ON; see bag ) + -age -age
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bag·gage   (bāg'ĭj)   
n.  
  1. The trunks, bags, parcels, and suitcases in which one carries one's belongings while traveling; luggage.
  2. The movable equipment and supplies of an army.
  3. Superfluous or burdensome practices, regulations, ideas, or traits.
    1. A woman prostitute.
    2. An impudent girl or woman.

[Middle English bagage, from Old French bague, bundle, perhaps of Germanic origin. Sense 4, perhaps from French bagasse, from Provençal bagassa, ultimately from Arabic baġīy, prostitute, from baġā, to fornicate; see bġy in Semitic roots.]
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Baggage

Bag"gage\, n. [F. bagage, from OF. bague bungle. In senses 6 and 7 cf. F. bagasse a prostitute. See Bag, n.]

1. The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.

Note: "The term itself is made to apply chiefly to articles of clothing and to small personal effects." --Farrow.

2. The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.

The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. --Thackeray.

We saw our baggage following below. --Johnson.

Note: The English usually call this luggage.

3. Purulent matter. [Obs.] --Barrough.

4. Trashy talk. [Obs.] --Ascham.

5. A man of bad character. [Obs.] --Holland.

6. A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.

A disreputable, daring, laughing, painted French baggage. --Thackeray.

7. A romping, saucy girl. [Playful] --Goldsmith.
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Language Translation for : baggage
Spanish: equipaje,
German: das Gepäck,
Japanese: 手荷物
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baggage 
c.1440, from O.Fr. bagage, from bague "pack, bundle," ult. from the same Scand. source that yielded bag.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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