blue bag
Britishnoun
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a fabric bag for a barrister's robes
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a small bag containing blueing for laundering
Example Sentences
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As they scoop up the items into a blue bag, one staff member is seen trying to bat them away with a small box while another tries to remove the items from the display and back into the shop.
From BBC
Prato demonstrated the method earlier this week outside the emergency department of Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, packing ice cubes inside an impermeable blue bag around a medical dummy representing a patient.
From Seattle Times
She finds a younger passenger and then says, “That blue bag is mine — could you please help pull it down?” she says.
From Seattle Times
After years of wondering what Westren kept in his tattered blue bag, Warburton finally got his answer last week: He was carrying his own works of art — which, in a cruel twist, were nearly thrown in the trash.
From Washington Post
Then they would return home, and late in Game 6, somewhere in the bowels of TD Garden, a gloved handler cradling the oversized, robin’s-egg blue bag that protects the golden Larry O’Brien Trophy would prepare it for presentation.
From Washington Post
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