portmantua

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portmantua (plural portmantuas)

  1. Obsolete form of portmanteau (“case”).
    • ca. 1500, anonymous author, Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford:
      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.
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