traveling case

noun

Synonyms of traveling casenext
: a usually rigid and box-shaped suitcase

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The tents have vintage touches—traveling cases, leather Chesterfield couches, and copper bathtubs—with butler service, and each camp has a lap pool. — Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025 For those pieces, look for specialty boxes and portable traveling cases. — Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 2 Jan. 2025 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 Way before Christo, Marcel Duchamp created a traveling case of miniatures of his work to extend their reach and allow Duchamp to sell more exemplars of his work. — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 5 June 2022 The newest recruit at the International Crane Foundation arrived last month in its own traveling case. — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2021

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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