dispatch case

plural dispatch cases · alternative despatch case

1. A flat, stiff case used for carrying papers, documents, books, etc.

   He picked up his dispatch-case, mildewed under the buckles, from the desk-chair in the lounge, and walked to the door which led from the flat to the world of boys.

   1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 44

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   There is the long row of year-books which fill a shelf, and there are the dispatch-cases filled with documents, a perfect quarry for the student not only of crime, but of the social and official scandals of the late Victorian era.

   1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger (The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes), published 1927