blue bag

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English

Noun

blue bag (plural blue bags)

  1. A lawyer's bag made of blue fabric to carry briefs, now as typically carried by a junior barrister.
  2. A bag containing alkaline blue laundry powder, used for whitening clothes.
    • 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 73:
      ‘Nolly, Nolly,’ observed the Doctor, ‘I wish your maid would stop your foolish mouth with a blue-bag.’