portmanteau

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

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  • I sent for my portmanteau, and slept there that night after I had dined with the governor. —  Percival Keene
  • I left my check book in my portmanteau, which is still on the way and I find I haven't a cent. —  Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls
  • At first I felt a little queer for want of Mrs. Whitaker; but recollecting that my portmanteau was in the room, I threw it behind my back, and it did every bit as well DLXXXV.--SEEING A CORONATION A SAD mistake was once made at court by the beautiful and celebrated Duchess of Hamilton. —  The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
  • She greeted me with all the stately courtesy of the Old School; my portmanteau was taken upstairs by a solemn-eyed lad in the Macdonald tartan; and the tea bell rang me down to a most appetising repast of strawberries and cream, scones, and delicious buttered toast. —  Scottish Ghost Stories
  • He then helped Mrs. Murphy unpack their portmanteau, and, during the process, whiled away so much time in conversation, that they were both startled when a clock from some adjacent church solemnly boomed twelve. —  Scottish Ghost Stories
 

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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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