Definition of "personal effects" []

• Privately owned items, such as keys, an identification card, or a wallet or watch, that are regularly worn or carried on one's person. (noun-plural)

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• "Houten had Bragdon bring Raoul's personal effects in a large manila envelope."
• "Now that the CO's office belonged to Botchup, these personal effects would normally be removed to Phule's quarters, but the sealing tape was cut and the top lay open."
• "He sent for Geordie Dalgleish, and instructed him to go to Edinburgh Castle and retrieve the papers and personal effects from his old quarters."