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definition of baggage

The word baggage It is a term that is used in our language, although, it should be noted that it does not have a very extensive use as it does with some of its synonyms.

Now, through it, it is possible to express several questions that we will address below.

Undoubtedly the most used use today is to express the set of knowledge and information that a person possesses regarding a subject or several. María Laura has a very broad cultural background, it is a pleasure to talk with her because she knows everything.

On the other hand, the word baggage is also used a lot to designate the luggage that someone carries, they take with them when they travel, although, of course, it is worth pointing out that it is more common and habitual for people to talk about luggage, suitcase, simply and not from the baggage. In any case, it is important to note that it is well said if it is done so, although it may sound strange to us because it is not usual for the word to be used too much to refer to luggage.

At military field also the word baggage was used with recurrence to account for the typical military baggage with which armies moved from one place to another.

A couple of centuries ago, more precisely in the early years of the 18th century, in 1710, in Spain, an ordinance is established that stipulates baggage, a contribution that had to be paid by the residents of some Spanish towns through which the army passed through the circulation of carriages, carts and cavalry. In the ordinance that takes effect on March 10, 1710, the sum that the neighbor had to pay was indicated.

Meanwhile, there were exceptions to the rule and they were: the nobility, the priests, the mayor, the councilor, the trustee, the mountain guard, the tobacconists, among others.

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