valise

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Recent Examples of valise But in Vienna, Pollak kept a mistress, and Milena had to take a job porting valises at the train station just to make ends meet. Christine Estima september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025 That a kindly bellhop from The Balmoral, our hotel adjacent to the station, loaded our valises off a trolley cart did little to rein in these trappings. Ross Kenneth Urken, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2024 Plus, the strangest news from across the world Read On Best Visit G&T Garden Tours Aficionados of English gardens, pack your valises for one of G&T Garden Tours’ week-long trips to the West Country. airmail.news, 23 Mar. 2024 For the kind of hopeful young women who once packed their sashes in their valises and got on the bus to come to Hollywood, only to find a hundred other small-town beauty queens already here, a pageant crown no longer has to be their only onramp to mobility and even cinema celebrity. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023 But that narrow slot that grips your valise is nonetheless roomy enough for forward-pointing feet and ankles, because BMW cleverly carved a chunk out of each front seatback to accommodate knees and lower appendages. Jean Lindamood, Car and Driver, 23 Mar. 2023 The next week, Talley presented her with a Fendi valise. Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023 At the bottom of the pile of documents in the valise that Jeanie sent to the Morgan is a copy of the magazine dated March 10, 1956, containing E. B. White’s moving obituary for G. S. Lobrano. Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for valise
Noun
  • Anne Hathaway has been seen carrying a vintage Metropolitan briefcase on the set of The Devil Wears Prada 2.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • So her Sonic Youth T-shirt and Spin T-shirt and her Strand Adrian Tomine tote bag and her little briefcase thing, that’s my stuff.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His lawyer eventually emerged from the ICE office holding a belt and a wallet.
    Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But what many users didn’t understand, or were never clearly told, is that the Web3 Wallet was not a self-custody wallet.
    Chris Groshong, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Valise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/valise. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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