valise

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/vəˈliːz/

Definition of valise

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase or travelling bag.
    “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,...”
    “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.”
    “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.”
    “Nothing to declare / Not in the valise of my mind”

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Etymology

Borrowed from French valise.

Hooks

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