carpetbags in English

noun
1
a traveling bag of a kind originally made of carpeting or carpetlike material.
verb
1
act as a carpetbagger.
rich, carpetbagging developers

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1. Carpetbaggers were so named because many of them carried carpetbags as luggage.

2. [So called because they carried their belongings in Carpetbags.] car′pet·bag′ger·y n

3. The Carpetbagger creates reproduction Carpetbags, satchels, and travel bags that are a favorite of Civil War re-enactors and Victorian Travelers

4. The Carpetbagger creates reproduction Carpetbags, satchels, and travel bags that are a favorite of Civil War re-enactors and Victorian Travelers

5. The Carpetbagger creates reproduction carpetbags, satchels, and travel bags that are a favorite of Civil War re-enactors and Victorian Travelers

6. Although regarded as transients because of the carpetbags in which they carried their possessions (hence the name Carpetbaggers), most intended to settle in the South, some in support of the radical Republican

7. Carpetbag (third-person singular simple present Carpetbags, present participle Carpetbagging, simple past and past participle Carpetbagged) (chiefly US) 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 …