Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A saddlebag.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A saddle-bag; knapsack; wallet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Sp. Amer. A saddlebag.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a saddlebag.
- noun a cheek pouch.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Spanish, from Old Spanish, from Arabic al-ḫurj : al-, the + ḫurj, saddlebag; akin to Persian khurjīn.]
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From Spanish Andalusian Arabic (alẖurǧ), from Spanish (al, "of the") + Arabic خرج (ẖurj, "saddlebag").
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Examples
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You sneak off and roll up that piece of buckskin, and thrust it into the alforja.
The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909
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About a week later one of your companions drags out of the alforja something crumpled that resembles in general appearance and texture a rusted five-gallon coal-oil can that has been in a wreck.
The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909
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About a week later one of your companions drags out of the alforja something crumpled that resembles in general appearance and texture a rusted five-gallon
The Mountains 1904
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You sneak off and roll up that piece of buckskin, and thrust it into the alforja.
The Mountains 1904
yarb commented on the word alforja
"The apothecary ... was a little old withered man, with a forehead about an inch high, a nose turned up at the end, large cheek-bones that helped to form a pit for his little gray eyes, a great bag of loose skin hanging down on each side in wrinkles, like the alforjas of a baboon, and a mouth so much accustomed to that contraction which produces grinning, that he could not pronounce a syllable without discovering the remains of his teeth, which consisted of four yellow fangs, not improperly, by anatomists, called canine."
- Smollett, Roderick Random, 1748
May 21, 2014