valise

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small suitcase or traveling bag, especially one carried by hand

   Watson packed a change of clothes in his valise before leaving for the station.

Borrowed from French valise, 'traveling bag,' probably through Italian valigia. The deeper origin is uncertain; proposed sources include a Gaulish word for an enclosure or an Arabic word for a large bag.

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