brief case meaning (dated): definition, quotations

brief case

noun

Dated Dated form of briefcase.

That master expounder of eloqution, the Earl of Fuzzilania la Stoner, ambled into a certain room on the lower corridor (number not mentioned) and asked ye scribes and scribesses if the satchel, which he insinuates is a brief case, had been turned in and if so, where.1933 November 29, “The Language Is Elegant But It’s “Scandal” Anyway”, in The Northerner, volume VII, number 14, Fort Wayne, Ind.: North Side High School, page three, column 2:
She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his brief case.1943, Emile C. Tepperman, Calling Justice, Inc.!:

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There are no bodyside parcels racks, but a slatted shelf is provided at the base of each chair, under the seat, for light articles such as brief cases or handbags.1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 222:
He was at a banquette in the Stag Bar, with a café royale and sixteen registration cards, when a man who looked like a shy Milquetoast, a bookkeeper with an inferiority complex, deposited his brief case on the leather cushion beside the Marshal.1961, Stewart Sterling [pseudonym; Prentice Winchell], chapter 12, in Too Hot to Handle: A Marshal Pedley Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 77:
The local police once caught me and accused me of stealing a brief case of a bus passenger.2003, Kiran Bedi, What Went Wrong? …and Continues, 2nd edition, New Delhi: UBSPD, →ISBN, page 277:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brief, case.

Dwyer and Reid (2004) presented a brief case of a 45-year-old South African man admitted to a neurology unit with a left hemiparesis and Ganser’s syndrome.2007, James A. Cocores, Louis B. Schlesinger, V. Blair Mesa, “Ganser’s Syndrome, Prison Psychosis, and Rare Dissociative States”, in Louis B. Schlesinger, editor, Explorations in Criminal Psychopathology: Clinical Syndromes with Forensic Implications, 2nd edition, Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, →ISBN, section III (Borderline and Psychotic Disorders), page 246: