Meaning

Alternative form of portmanteau (“travelling case”)..

Example Sentences

Then there is such a getting up-stairs with portemanteaus and carpet-bags in the Gross-Herzog; […]

Bending low, he caught the whisper, “Read,” and following his eyes to the small stand before mentioned, among some articles that had been taken from his portemanteau, to administer to his comfort, he noticed a small pocket Bible.

I started later & only got to Rodborough turnpike, we sent the donkey cart for his portemanteau; […]

Perhaps they are very intimate and he only came to Pineside for the purpose of being near her. If I thought this, I should go on my knees to mamma concerning the matter of making him pack his portemanteau instantly.

A. Lovrek, of Vienna, for “Improvements in the shape and arrangement of portemanteaus.”—2 years.—(Public.)—Dated 13th May, 1873.

They travelled on as proposed. From Boston (where Eugene found his portemanteau, which he had telegraphed to have sent there) to New York, from New York up the Hudson, between tree-clothed villa-dotted banks, or pale cliffs beetling and bare, at whose foot could be seen darting along, like brilliant snakes, long trains of cars painted brightest orange or vermilion.

“I shall place them in my portman-tell,” said Gashwiler, suiting the word to the action, “for safe keeping. I need not inform you, who are now, as it were, on the threshold of official life, that perfect and inviolable secrecy in all affairs of State”—Mr. G. here motioned toward his portemanteau as if it contained a treaty at least—“is most essential and necessary.”

What capital fun, quite a romance, so we will just arrange, that until further notice, I will call myself, and others will call me, Mr. Skulk, a new arrival, prospecting for land, in light marching order, like a regular greenhorn, as he is lost his portemanteaux, and all his clothes, and has to write to Madras for more, although when they will be here, if ever at all, over these wretched roads, it is impossible to say.

Word Forms

• portemanteaux
• portemanteaus

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