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portmantua en · NOUN
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(alt-of, obsolete) Obsolete form of portmanteau (“case”).
A Rover tooke him unprepared, / Search't his Port-mantua, bound him faſter, / And ſent him naked to his Maſter: […]
1638, Corymbœus [pseudonym; Richard Brathwait], “His Northerne Journey: Third Part”, in Barnabees Journall; […], [London]: […] [John Haviland], →OCLC, signature P2, recto: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.
ca. 1500, anonymous author, Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford:
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