Duffel

The bag is named for a Flemish town.

Duffel in Flanders supplied a heavy napped cloth that took the town's name. The cloth later gave its name to the bag, and the bag outlived the fabric trade.

The bag is named for a Flemish town that sold the cloth, not the bag.

Duffel, near Antwerp, gave its name to a thick woolen cloth traded across Europe from the seventeenth century. English speakers later moved the word onto military kit sacks made of heavy fabric, and the town is now better known abroad for luggage than for weaving.

Named for a Belgian town that made the cloth, not the coat.

Duffel, near Antwerp, gave its name to a thick, coarse wool traded across Europe from the 17th century onward. The coat cut from that cloth became naval issue in both world wars, then surplus-store fashion, and finally the uniform of a fictional bear.