valise

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

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

From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2017

Almost everyone lugs a heavy valise here, and no one ever comments on that.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2014

The camera folded down into a valise the size of a briefcase and somehow this made it even more disappointing to her parents: all that money packed away into such a small space.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

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

And those new petite valises and green hatboxes ....

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2012

“Well, Monsieur, do you not wish to see what my valises contain?”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie