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valise

[vuh-lees, -leez] / vəˈlis, -ˈliz /


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I am willing to accept, as settlement, as many $20 bills as can be crammed into a standard-size valise and mailed to my home.

From Washington Post Jul. 6, 2020

This he most emphatically proclaimed in his creation of the X, Y and Z Portfolios, a modern-day boîte en valise, after Duchamp, a “suitcase” of the artist’s most select wares.

From The Guardian Nov. 17, 2015

At 21 she fled to London with a handful of records in her valise and has been an expat ever since.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2015

The first, in a baseball cap and sunglasses, held a large brown valise that caught Klug’s eye.

From BusinessWeek Feb. 20, 2014

The camera folded down into a valise the size of a briefcase and somehow this made it even more disappointing to her parents: all that money packed away into such a small space.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

He and his wife have schlepped materials home by train, “five big valises recently from Prague.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

Models — male and female — strutted down the runway in leather cowboy hats, cowhide valises, and checkered denim jackets adorned with bull badges, their cowboy boots boasting shiny metal points.

From Seattle Times Jan. 16, 2024

These valises are a reminder of how far Talley was able to travel from his childhood in Durham and how he did so with aplomb and self-regard.

From Washington Post Feb. 11, 2023

And those new petite valises and green hatboxes ....

From New York Times Mar. 8, 2012

“Your valises have been moved, Monsieur, to the compartment No. 1, the compartment of M. Bouc.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie




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