dispatch case

Noun

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...
   • 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...