Noun: valise
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | valise |
| Plural f | valises |
Sample Sentences
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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.) [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:]
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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.) [1938, Francis Carco, L’Homme de minuit, Paris: Éditions Albin Michel:]
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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.) [1965, Georges Perec, Les Choses, Julliard:]
Nouns inflected like valise
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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-. Or, possibly from Arabic وَلِيهَة (walīha, “large bag”).
2. Maybe a borrowing through Italian valigia, even though this is dubious. Compare Spanish valija. See: Italian Nouns '
valigia', Spanish Nouns '
valija'.
Verbs referencing "valise"
Italian Nouns
valigia, Dutch Nouns
valies, Belarusan Nouns
валіза, Ukrainian Nouns
валіза, Romanian Nouns
valiză, Galician Nouns
valixa.
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