Obs. For forms see CLOAK sb.; also 6–8 Sc. clog-bag. A bag in which to carry a cloak or other clothes; a portmanteau, valise.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), II. 454. Fillit sindry dry leddren polkis full of small stanis, and band tham togidder, in maner of clogboggis, to thair hors.
1552. Huloet, Cloke bagge, penularium.
1579. Gosson, Sch. Abuse (Arb.), 26. Pythagoras bequeathes them a Clookebagge, and condemnes them for fooles, that iudge Musicke by sounde and eare.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VII. (1682), 291. Delivering me the keys of their three Clogbags before the Consul. [So always in this book.]
1658. Osborn, Jas. I. (1673), 533. A Cloak-bag full of dried Sweet-meats and Confects.
1756. Mrs. Calderwood, Jrnl. (1884), 51. John Rattray was laid before my bed, with his head on a clog-bag.
1841. Lane, Arab. Nts. (Rtldg.), 13. He mounted his horse, and with only a cloak-bag behind him, [etc.].
b. transf. and fig.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. iv. 497. That stuft Cloake-bagge of Guts.
1602. 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., IV. ii. (Arb.), 55. You that are a plague stuffed Cloake-bagge of all iniquitie.
c. attrib.
1619. H. Hutton, Follies Anat., 22. Rayling on cloakebagge breeches.
a. 1641. Suckling, Fragm. Aurea (1648), 61. His garters or his Cloak-bag strings.
1655. trans. Sorel’s Com. Hist. Francion, 63. Long Cloak-bag-string dashes.
