valise

English
a valise previously carried by US President Gerald Ford

Etymology

Borrowed from French valise.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vəˈliːz/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːz

Noun

valise (plural valises)

  1. 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

Derived terms

Translations
a piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase — see suitcase

Anagrams

French

Etymology

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]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /va.liz/
  • audio(file)
  • Homophones: valisent, valises

Noun

valise f (plural valises)

  1. case, suitcase

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading
  1. “valise”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
  3. http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/issue_pdf/frontmatter_pdf/s9-X/247.pdf

Anagrams

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French valise.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /vaˈli.zi/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /vaˈli.ze/
 

Noun

valise f (plural valises)

  1. a small suitcase
    Synonym: maleta
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