valise

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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

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

It is weirdly classy, like a valise or an upmarket clutch.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2017

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

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 20, 2014

With a powerful arm, Grandma swung Mrs. Wilcox’s bulging valise aboard, then a picnic hamper.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck