Blue-bag
noun (in Britain)
a fabric bag for a barrister’s robes
a small bag containing blueing for laundering
Historical Examples
The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 2/2 Camden Pelham
The Letters of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens
The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical Frank H. Stauffer
Verner’s Pride Mrs. Henry Wood
Anthony Trent, Master Criminal Wyndham Martyn
Sketches by Boz Charles Dickens
Olive Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
The Story of an African Farm (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner
Norfolk Annals Charles Mackie
Total Per Cent Lambing Rules Thomas Boylan
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