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valise

[vuh-lees, -leez] / vəˈlis, -ˈliz /


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The next week, Talley presented her with a Fendi valise.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2023

They characterize the Bureau as “an extended community of autodidacts and guessworkers caught up in language inquiry and the unguarded arts,” and “a valise fiction and portable literary service in the public domain.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2021

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

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

From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 20, 2014

She shoved the valise in the waiting beetle, climbed in, and sat mumbling, “Poor family, poor family, oh everything gone, everything, everything gone now...”

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

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

But do they need vacations, and if so do they pack their Hermès valises and head to the Bahamas?

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2010

The Princess spoke to her in her own language, telling her to open the valises and help the gentlemen in their search.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie




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