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Is "baggage" as "portable military equipment" a technical or an old-fashioned term?

English Language & Usage Asked on June 28, 2021

According to dictionaries, one of the meanings of "baggage" is "an army’s portable equipment". But I wonder if it is a technical or an old-fashioned term. I’m not sure if native speakers are generally familiar with this meaning of the word.

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It appears to be a technical term but not an old-fashioned one:

In military terminology, baggage is any equipment that can be carried or hauled along. This is the original definition, from the Old French baggage, "military equipment," from bague, for "bag or bundle."(Vocabulary.com)

Dictionary.com lists as second, out of three, the sense of military equipment, but they don’t define it as archaic like other definitions such as prostitute.

Answered by user 66974 on June 28, 2021

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