vanity case
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vanity case
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Ella pointed at the vanity case, where a wax copy of her mother's hands sat.
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Other items being sold include a silver plate looted from Napoleon's carriage after his 1815 defeat at Waterloo and a wooden vanity case he owned, with razors, a silver toothbrush, scissors and other belongings.
From BBC
It was “wrapped in plastic and concealed in the lining of a vanity case.”
From Washington Times
She took out her vanity case and began powdering her nose.
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But one installation in particular provoked some Muslim schoolteachers from Belgium on a recent visit - a Louis Vuitton vanity case holding a mock bomb, creation of U.S. artist Gregory Green.
From Washington Times
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