valise
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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
Sprightly Over the last five years, the designer Guillaume Henry has considerably freshened the house of Carven, and this jeune dame, now robust, has dropped her valise in SoHo.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2014
But the bony hands were sure and quick as the old man stuffed small jars and rolls of tape into the valise.
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
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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
Rutledge wonders as he surveys unclaimed women’s valises at Victoria Station.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2020
“Your valises have been moved, Monsieur, to the compartment No. 1, the compartment of M. Bouc.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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