portmanteau

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  1. noun A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments.

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  • The fourth canto duly reached London in Mr. Hobhouse's portmanteau, and was published in the spring of 1818. —  A Publisher and His Friends
  • On this discovery I called for the portmanteau, found the lock torn off, and some papers tumbled and abused, which had seemingly been all opened. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr
  • I had my shirts and blouses and stockings in a portmanteau, and amongst them a magnificent garment, never yet worn, a blue cloth jacket, and a white waistcoat belonging to it, with gold buttons, which my mother had given me permission to wear on Sundays. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • I think a lot of people did back in the day though .. just now, -0 / +1After all, portmanteau is a French word. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • In each a good fire blazed cheerfully; my portmanteau was already unstrapped, the table in the sitting-room already laid; and I could not help looking twice at the silver and the glass, so bright was their condition, so good their quality. —  Dead Men Tell No Tales
 

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  1. French portemanteau : porte-, from porter, to carry (from Old French; see port5) + manteau, cloak (from Old French mantel, from Latin mantellum).

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  1. Formerly also portmanteaw, portmantue, portmantua (also portmantle, accommodation to mantle); = Spanish Portuguese portamanteo, from French portemanteau (= Italian portamantello), from porter, carry, + manteau, cloak, mantle: see port and mantle, manteau.
 

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/poʊrtˈmæntoʊ/
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