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noun, feminine

valise

/va.liz/

noun, feminine/va.liz/plural: valises

case, suitcase; eyebag

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.

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”). Maybe a borrowing through Italian valigia, even though this is dubious. Compare Spanish valija.