Obs.–1 In 6 -aunce. [app. ad. med.L. valesia, valisia VALISE, with ending assimilated to sb.1] A cloak-bag.
a. 1562. Cavendish, Wolsey (1893), 64. Byfore hyme he hadde … a gentilman that caried his valaunce, otherwyse called a clooke bage; which was made all to gether of fynne scarlett clothe, enbrodered over … with clothe of gold very richly.
