porte-monnaie

See also: portemonnaie and Portemonnaie

English

Alternative forms

• portemonnaie

Etymology

From French porte-monnaie.

Noun

porte-monnaie (plural porte-monnaies)

1. A wallet.
   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     She saw without looking that her mother pressed a little clasp; heard, without wanting to, the sharp click that marked the closing portemonnaie from which something had been taken.

Anagrams

• metanopirone

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French

Alternative forms

• portemonnaie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.t(ə).mɔ.nɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

porte-monnaie m (plural porte-monnaies or porte-monnaie)

1. purse

Related terms

• portefeuille

Descendants

• → Danish: portemonnæ
• → Dutch: portemonnee, (superseded) portemonnaie
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: patmoni
  • → Papiamentu: pòtmòni
• → English: porte-monnaie
• → German: Portemonnaie
• → Romanian: portmoneu
• → Russian: портмоне (portmone)
• → Swedish: portmonnä

Further reading

• “porte-monnaie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.