porte-monnaie
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See also: portemonnaie and Portemonnaie
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French porte-monnaie.
Noun
[edit]porte-monnaie (plural porte-monnaies)
- 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
[edit]French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]porte-monnaie m (plural porte-monnaies or porte-monnaie)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Armenian: պորտման (portman)
- → Azerbaijani: portman, portmanat
- → Danish: portemonnæ
- → Dutch: portemonnee, (superseded) portemonnaie
- → English: porte-monnaie
- → German: Portemonnaie
- → Ladino: portmoné
- → Polish: portmonetka
- → Romanian: portmoneu
- → Russian: портмоне́ (portmoné)
- → Swedish: portmonnä
Further reading
[edit]- “porte-monnaie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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