portmantua
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[edit]Noun
[edit]portmantua (plural portmantuas)
- 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.