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
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
In 1978, when New York was bankrupt, a busted valise of a city, a few January snowstorms turned into a crisis that lasted for months.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2015
Her valise was full to bursting, and her eyes were everywhere, so I don’t know if she sported Grandma at first.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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