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Perhaps family seat's hiding ancient baggage (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

holdall

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'baggage' is the definition.
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'perhaps family seat's hiding ancient' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'ancient' could be 'old' (similar in meaning) and 'old' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'hall' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for holdall that I've seen before include "Big bag" , "Large strong bag with handles or shoulder strap" , "Capacious bag or basket" , "Item of luggage" , "A large soft travelling bag - stuff everything in" .)

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