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Carpetbag

noun
1.
Traveling bag made of carpet; widely used in 19th century.
adjective
1.
Following the practices or characteristic of carpetbaggers.  "A carpetbag government"
2.
Presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality.  Synonym: carpetbagging.  "A capetbag politician"



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"Carpetbag" Quotes from Famous Books



... major thoughtfully, "it would take a wider garment of love to cover a man with a carpetbag in his hand than a soldier in a Yankee uniform. A conqueror who looked around as he was fighting and then came back to trade on the necessities of the conquered cuts but a sorry figure, ...
— Andrew the Glad • Maria Thompson Daviess

... doing, when they thought their dear papa was miles and miles away. As a consequence of this playful device, there was nobody to meet them at the finger-post, but that was of small consequence, for they had come down by the day coach, and Mr Pecksniff had only a carpetbag, while Mr Jonas had only a portmanteau. They took the portmanteau between them, put the bag upon it, and walked off up the lane without delay; Mr Pecksniff already going on tiptoe as if, without this precaution, his fond children, ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

... Congressmen incessantly called slavery barbarism, and yet combined to transmute to-day into electors and law-makers those who but yesterday had been slaves. Black legislatures inevitably abused their power, becoming the instruments of base carpetbag leaders and rings in ...
— History of the United States, Volume 4 • E. Benjamin Andrews

... a little carpetbag," said his mother. "That looks more respectable. When you have earned enough money, you must have a new suit ...
— Only An Irish Boy - Andy Burke's Fortunes • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... all invitations to ride, and strode on, carpetbag in hand, though, sooth to say, he had very little idea whether he was steering in the right direction for his uncle's shop. By dint of diligent and persevering inquiry he found it at last, and walking in, announced himself to the worthy baker as ...
— Jack's Ward • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... with 214 out of 294 electoral votes, but he received a popular majority of only 300,000. Examination of the returns indicated a strong conservative minority in many of the solid Republican states. The strength of the radicals in the South, moreover, was due, in the main, to negro-carpetbag domination, and when these states should become conservative, as they were sure to do, the political parties would ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley

... was that Missourians were largely barred by law from holding office and the state was overrun with "carpetbag" office-holders, many of whom came from Kansas, and during the war had been freebooters and bushwhackers up ...
— The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself • Cole Younger



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