valise
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A few steps away, a kosher carving knife, a pushcart, a pickle barrel and a battered traveling valise used by immigrants from Lithuania are lined up against a wall.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2022
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
At the college archives, Creamer showed us more of the Stevens artifacts housed there, including a valise marked with his name and a photograph of the congressman’s boot maker.
From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 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
They take my valise and herd me toward the running car.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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