valise

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

I ended up tapping the luggage tag affixed to my traveling valise, where Edda Grace St. James was written in my best penmanship.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse