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Definition of Portmanteaus
1. portmanteau [n] - See also: portmanteau
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portmanteaus
Literary usage of Portmanteaus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in that Country (1843)
"Theatre — portmanteaus — Visiters— Houses of Puebla—Fine arts — Paseo — Don N.
Ramos Arispe — Bishop — Cotton factories — Don Esteban ..."
2. O'Hara; Or, 1798 by William Hamilton Maxwell (1825)
"... whom this respectable couple had unceremoniously kicked out of the room, and
tossed their pattern-books and portmanteaus down stairs after them, ..."
3. Gum-elastic and Its Varieties: With a Detailed Account of Its Applications by Charles Goodyear (1853)
"portmanteaus. Saddle-bags. Mail-bags. Horse mail-bags. Bottles. Hot-water bottles.
Improved hot-water bottles. Shaving boxes. Dressing boxes. ..."
4. The Atlantic Club-book: Being Sketches in Prose and Verse (1834)
"And so it was; the group was just disputing whether the cover of our portmanteaus
belonged to the buffalo or the ox species. They had seen them when carried ..."
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