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Definition of valise in English: valisenoun vəˈliːzvəˈlis A small travelling bag or suitcase. Example sentencesExamples - After ransacking his valise, they discover he is French.
- You can almost picture a stern lady in a hoop skirt being helped down from the train, while a porter scurries to take her valise.
- Important papers should not be left in the outside pouches of valises that are thrown unceremoniously into the boot of a taxi.
- Adam dropped the valise on the floor.
- She had cooked up yet another plot, and she packed her valise carefully making sure to take only those things that she would need.
- These men were observed to be of various statures, considerably variegated, and carried their worldly possessions in bundles, boxes, trunks, valises, and suitcases.
- Sara gazed up at the house in dazed wonder, not noticing Mr. Lake's retrieval of her valise from the carriage or his offer of hand to steady her step down to the sidewalk.
- We walked in silence and stood together, before the carriage door, as one of the footmen loaded my valise into the storage compartment.
- She moved back towards the carriage, pausing to smile at Nicholas, and asked Jeanette for something in her valise.
- The evening before my surgery, I packed a small valise with a robe, slippers, toothbrush, toothpaste, two books, and bottled water, and set off to the hospital with my husband.
- He put his valise on his lap, beneath his waxed greatcoat, tied his hat under his chin, propped his cane between his legs and settled down.
- The next morning, he knocked on her door, just as she burst out of it, followed by a train of servants carrying cases and valises.
- She was dressed in a grey business-type suit and skirt, and clutched a leather valise to her chest.
- When he retired and returned to the UK, all he took with him were two valises and deep affection for Taiwan.
- She removed her makeup kit, then a blue dress from the larger of their two valises.
- He grabbed his stuff, already packed into a large valise, and made a quick exit onto a neighboring roof through his window.
- He stopped abruptly and gestured at a small valise next to the doorway.
- Carrying a cream valise and dressed in a white linen suit, his entrance, while not exactly grand, has a graceful style all its own.
- She dressed in her warmest clothes, as the Spanish nights were terribly cold, and grabbed her valise.
- You brought a valise with a change of clothes.
Synonyms suitcase, case, portmanteau, holdall, carryall, grip, overnight bag, overnighter, flight bag, travelling bag, gladstone bag, carpet bag
Origin Early 17th century: from French, from Italian valigia; compare with medieval Latin valesia, of unknown origin. Rhymes Achinese, Ambonese, appease, Assamese, Balinese, Belize, Beninese, Bernese, bêtise, Bhutanese, breeze, Burmese, Cantonese, Castries, cerise, cheese, chemise, Chinese, Cingalese, Cleese, Congolese, Denise, Dodecanese, ease, éminence grise, expertise, Faroese, freeze, Fries, frieze, Gabonese, Genoese, Goanese, Guyanese, he's, Japanese, Javanese, jeez, journalese, Kanarese, Keys, Lebanese, lees, legalese, Louise, Macanese, Madurese, Maltese, marquise, Milanese, Nepalese, officialese, overseas, pease, Pekinese, Peloponnese, Piedmontese, please, Portuguese, Pyrenees, reprise, Rwandese, seise, seize, Senegalese, she's, Siamese, Sienese, Sikkimese, Sinhalese, sleaze, sneeze, squeeze, Stockton-on-Tees, Sudanese, Sundanese, Surinamese, Tabriz, Taiwanese, tease, Tees, telegraphese, these, Timorese, Togolese, trapeze, Viennese, Vietnamese, vocalese, wheeze Definition of valise in US English: valisenounvəˈlisvəˈlēs A small traveling bag or suitcase. Example sentencesExamples - She dressed in her warmest clothes, as the Spanish nights were terribly cold, and grabbed her valise.
- These men were observed to be of various statures, considerably variegated, and carried their worldly possessions in bundles, boxes, trunks, valises, and suitcases.
- He put his valise on his lap, beneath his waxed greatcoat, tied his hat under his chin, propped his cane between his legs and settled down.
- Carrying a cream valise and dressed in a white linen suit, his entrance, while not exactly grand, has a graceful style all its own.
- He grabbed his stuff, already packed into a large valise, and made a quick exit onto a neighboring roof through his window.
- Sara gazed up at the house in dazed wonder, not noticing Mr. Lake's retrieval of her valise from the carriage or his offer of hand to steady her step down to the sidewalk.
- You brought a valise with a change of clothes.
- When he retired and returned to the UK, all he took with him were two valises and deep affection for Taiwan.
- She had cooked up yet another plot, and she packed her valise carefully making sure to take only those things that she would need.
- She removed her makeup kit, then a blue dress from the larger of their two valises.
- After ransacking his valise, they discover he is French.
- She was dressed in a grey business-type suit and skirt, and clutched a leather valise to her chest.
- She moved back towards the carriage, pausing to smile at Nicholas, and asked Jeanette for something in her valise.
- The evening before my surgery, I packed a small valise with a robe, slippers, toothbrush, toothpaste, two books, and bottled water, and set off to the hospital with my husband.
- Adam dropped the valise on the floor.
- The next morning, he knocked on her door, just as she burst out of it, followed by a train of servants carrying cases and valises.
- We walked in silence and stood together, before the carriage door, as one of the footmen loaded my valise into the storage compartment.
- He stopped abruptly and gestured at a small valise next to the doorway.
- Important papers should not be left in the outside pouches of valises that are thrown unceremoniously into the boot of a taxi.
- You can almost picture a stern lady in a hoop skirt being helped down from the train, while a porter scurries to take her valise.
Synonyms suitcase, case, portmanteau, holdall, carryall, grip, overnight bag, overnighter, flight bag, travelling bag, gladstone bag, carpet bag
Origin Early 17th century: from French, from Italian valigia; compare with medieval Latin valesia, of unknown origin. |