duffel
pronunciation
How to pronounce duffel in British English:
UK ['dʌfəl]
How to pronounce duffel in American English:
US [ˈdʌfəl]
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- Noun:
- a large cylindrical bag of heavy cloth; for carrying personal belongings
- a coarse heavy woolen fabric
Word Origin
- duffel
- duffel: [17] Duffel is actually a sort of heavy woollen material, and like so many names of fabrics, it comes from the place where it was originally made or exported from – in this case Duffel, a town in Belgium, near Antwerp. However, the term duffel coat (which dates back to the late 17th century) has in modern times become associated with a particular design of coat (with a hood and toggles) as much as with the material it is made from. Duffel bag [20], a term of American origin, was to begin with a bag for ‘personal belongings and equipment’, or duffel, as it is called in American English (the application seems to have started with ‘spare clothes made of duffel’).
- duffel
- see duffle.
Example
- 1. Fake beautiful alexander wang coco duffel bag .
- 2. Beside him lay a bulging duffel bag .
- 3. The boy 's body had been found stuffed in a duffel bag near interstate 95 in philadelphia in 1994 .
- 4. On the morning of his last day in iraq , he hauled his duffel bags out to the armored vehicle that would ferry him the final 200 or so miles out of iraq .
- 5. To limit those occurrences , tyson has provided all united states team members with duffel bags containing a hot pot , a power adaptor , recipes and replenishable pouches of chicken that they can take to international qualifying events over the next few months .