portmantua

English

Noun

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.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.