Baggage

From Middle English bagage, from Old French bagage, from bague ("bundle"), from Germanic (compare bag).

Full definition of baggage

(usually uncountable; plural baggages)

(usually uncountable) Luggage; traveling equipmentPlease put your baggage in the trunk.

1929, Charles Georges Souli, Eastern Shame Girl Chapter , As soon as they had determined on their course, Ya-nei slid under the bed, and made himself a place among the baggages.
1991, September 20, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective, Alone, she clings to her baggages on the street.

(uncountable, informal) Factors, especially psychological ones, which interfere with a person's ability to function effectively..He's got a lot of emotional baggage.

1846, Henry Francis Cary, Lives of the English Poets Chapter , Yet he was unreasonable enough to continue his expectations that Mason should do what he had, without any apparent compunction, omitted to do himself; for after speaking of Brown, the unfortunate author of Barbarossa, who was also an ecclesiastic, he adds: " ...
How much shall I honour one, who has a stronger propensity to poetry, and has got a greater name in it, if he performs his promise to me of putting away these idle baggages after his sacred espousal.

1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, No. 288 Chapter , Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages) felt for their master--pitied their poor master!
1897, Charles Whibley, A Book of Scoundrels Chapter , But he had a roving eye and a joyous temperament; and though he loved me better than any of the baggages to whom he paid court, he would not visit me so often as he should.
1910, Gertrude Hall, Chantecler Chapter , But your perverse attempts to wring blushes from little baggages in convenient corners outrage my love of Love!

(military, countable and uncountable) An army's portable equipment; its baggage train.

1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia Chapter , Friedrich decides to go down the River; he himself to Lowen, perhaps near twenty miles farther down, but where there is a Bridge and Highway leading over; Prince Leopold, with the heavier divisions and baggages, to Michelau, some miles nearer, and there to build his Pontoons and cross.
2007, Norman Davies, No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939â€“1945, New York: Penguin, pÂ 305:In Poland, for example, the unknown BolesÅ‚aw Bierut, who appeared in 1944 in the baggage of the Red Army, and who played a prominent role as a â€˜non-party figureâ€™ in the Lublin Committee, turned out to be a Soviet employee formerly working for the Comintern.