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Definitions
a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
Word origin
From Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“he carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”.
Used in a sentence
“A Rover tooke him unprepared, / Search't his Port-mantua, bound him faſter, / And ſent him naked to his Maſter: […]”
“Well, ‘slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy.’ ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active.’ You see it’s like a portmanteau⸺there are two meanings packed up into one word.”
“Well then, ‘mimsy’ is ‘flimsy and miserable’ (there’s another portmanteau for you).”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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