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Complete Definition of "portmantua"

English
Noun
portmantua (plural portmantuas)

#A variant form of portmanteau (the case).

Quotations
ca. 1500 Then Little John took the bishop's cloak, And spread it upon the ground, And out of the bishop's portmantua, He told three hundred pound. — Anonymous: Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1898)

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