Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A case for containing caps, collars, or other articles of apparel; a small traveling-case. In the seventeenth century it seems to have become a receptacle for papers, money, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small traveling case or bandbox; formerly, a chest.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A small case or bandbox.
  • noun obsolete A chest or trunk.

Etymologies

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cap +‎ case?

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Examples

  • Complaint, Small Hability, and the like; the Vice, Ambidexter, who enters 'with an old capcase on his head, an old pail about his hips for harness, a scummer and a potlid by his side, and a rake on his shoulder'; and the same scuffling and horseplay when the comic element is uppermost.

    The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne

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