Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Valise

Valise , noun

[French valise; compare Italian valigia, Sp. balija, Late Latin valisia, valesia; of uncertain origin, perhaps through (assumed) Late Latin vidulitia, from Latin vidulus a leathern trunk; a knapsack.]

A small sack or case, usually of leather, but sometimes of other material, for containing the clothes, toilet articles, etc., of a traveler; a traveling bag; a portmanteau.