traveling case

noun

: a usually rigid and box-shaped suitcase

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Nevertheless, the backpack is a bit cheaper than the traveling case for the older Starlink dish. & Michael Kan, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024 The five-figure podium, or its accompanying traveling case, have never been seen in use and the podium has only been photographed once, in late September. Libby Cathey, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2023 Trimmed with luggage slats and a restraint bar, the box lands ready to support any traveling cases, haversacks, miniature steamer trunks, or other traveling caboodle carried in the cabin, but definitely not any plus-two passengers. Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023 Zabeth furnishes the novel with a sturdy archetype, a premodern African character who maintains shopping lists in her head rather than writing them down and keeps her cash in a small traveling case rather than entrusting it to a bank, because that is supposedly the native way. Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 29 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for traveling case 

Word History

First Known Use

1744, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of traveling case was in 1744

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“Traveling case.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traveling%20case. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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