luggage

Etymology

1590s, lug (“to drag”) + -age, literally “that which is lugged, dragged around”. Duplicate -g- is to clarify pronunciation of the vowel ‘u’ (which is pronounced unchanged from lug). Compare baggage.

noun

1. (uncountable) The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.
   August 4, 1726, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey.
2. (uncountable) The contents of such containers.
3. (countable, nonstandard or obsolete) A specific bag or container holding a traveller's belongings.
   I assisted some time ago in cutting up a tree, that made tolerably good turns or luggage for nineteen or twenty persons, which could be procured for about two dollars at the stump. 1858, “Letter from Rev. George L. Seymour”, in The African Repository and Colonial Journal, volume 34, page 13
   The passengers injured who could not get out were removed out by the railway staff, and then taking part of the luggage the train started back for Burdwan. 1875, W. G. Willson, Report of the Midnapore and Burdwan Cyclone of the 15th and 16th of October 1874