Borrowed from French valise.

• IPA^(key): /vəˈliːz/

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• Rhymes: -iːz

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. […], volume (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

• busted valise
• broken-down valise

• Aviles, Avilés, Leivas, Savile, aviles, lavies

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]

• IPA^(key): /va.liz/

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• Homophones: valisent, valises

valise f (plural valises)

1. case, suitcase
   • 1605, Pierre Le Loyer, Discours et histoires des spectres, visions et apparitions des esprits, anges, démons et ames, se monstrans visibles aux hommes, Nicolas Buon, page 368:

     Elle luy dit qu'il tuë le premier qui viendra à sa rencontre, & luy couppe les oreilles, & les mette en sa valise, & puis qu'au milieu de l'estour il face la croix auecques son espee entre les deux pieds de deuant de son cheual, & se iette en fuite.

     She told him that he kills the first person who comes to meet him, cuts off his ears, and puts them in his suitcase, and then in the middle of combat, he faces the cross with his sword between the two front feet of his horse, and hurls himself into flight.

   • 1938, Francis Carco, L’Homme de minuit, Paris: Éditions Albin Michel:

     Le boiteux empoigna sa valise par terre, la plaça sur une chaise et souleva le couvercle.

     The cripple grasped his suitcase on the ground, placed it on a chair, and opened the buckle.

   • 1965, Georges Perec, Les Choses, Julliard:

     Ils s’enthousiasmaient pour une valise – ces valises minuscules, extraordinairement plates, en cuir noir légèrement grenu, que l’on voit en vitrine dans les magasins de la Madeleine, et qui semblent concentrer en elles tous les plaisirs supposés des voyages éclair, à New York ou à Londres.

     They were enthusiastic for a suitcase—those minuscule and extraordinarily flat suitcases made of black, lightly granular leather, that you could see in the shop windows of the Madeleine, and which seemed to concentrate in themselves all the supposed pleasures of lighting-fast trips to New York or London.

2. (figurative, chiefly in the plural) eyebag

• → Belarusian: валі́за (valíza)
• → Khmer: វ៉ាលីស៍ (vaalii)
• → Dutch: valies
• → Polish: waliza
• → Romanian: valiză
• → Turkish: valiz
• → Ukrainian: валі́за (valíza)
• → Vietnamese: va li
• → Yiddish: וואַליזע (valize)

• “valise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• levais, salive, salivé

• valisa

Borrowed from French valise.

valise f (plural valises)

1. a small suitcase

   Synonym: maleta

• “valise”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “valise”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026