cloak bag

English

Noun

cloak bag (plural cloak bags)

1. (obsolete) A suitcase or valise.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12:

     I was taken and immediately drawne into the bosome of a thicke Wood that was not far-off; there puld from my horse, stripped with all speed, my truncks and clokebags rifled, my box taken, my horses, my equipage, and such things as I had, dispersed and shared amongst them.