valise
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valise (plural valises)
- A piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase or travelling bag.
- 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 40:
- Finding upon the corpse more money than was required for the funeral, he transmitted it to the abbess, together with a small valise, containing, besides apparel, some trifling articles of jewellery, and the bracelet transmitted to you,...
- 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
- Though he studiously concealed his hand, this morning before breakfast, in writing the direction-card which he attached to the little brown valise of happier days, the eagle-glance of matrimonial anxiety detected, d, o, n, distinctly traced.
- 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘XXIII’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC:
- In spite of the falling rain, which had somewhat lessened, he took a small valise in his hand, and, leaving the remainder of his luggage at the inn, ascended the hills towards East Endelstow.
- 2024, “Nothing to Declare”, in Loss of Life, performed by MGMT:
- Nothing to declare / Not in the valise of my mind
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a piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase — see suitcase
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Inherited from Middle French valise, from Medieval Latin valesia, valixia, from Late Latin valisia, possibly from Gaulish *valisia (“leather bag”), from Proto-Celtic *val- (“to enclose, surround”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH-.[1] Or, possibly from Arabic وَلِيهَة (walīha, “large bag”).[2]
Maybe a borrowing through Italian valigia, even though this is dubious. Compare Spanish valija.[3]
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valise f (plural valises)
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- → Belarusian: валі́за (valíza)
- → Khmer: វ៉ាលីស៍ (vaalii)
- → Dutch: valies
- → Polish: waliza
- → Romanian: valiză
- → Turkish: valiz
- → Ukrainian: валі́за (valíza)
- → Vietnamese: va li
- → Yiddish: וואַליזע (valize)
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- ^ “valise”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- ^ http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/issue_pdf/frontmatter_pdf/s9-X/247.pdf
- “valise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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valise f (plural valises)