Meaning of portemanteau | Babel Free

Definitions

Étui cylindrique en drap que les cavaliers attachent à la selle et qui peut contenir un manteau et des effets de petit équipement.

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Examples

“Then there is such a getting up-stairs with portemanteaus and carpet-bags in the Gross-Herzog; […]”

“Bending low, he caught the whisper, “Read,” and following his eyes to the small stand before mentioned, among some articles that had been taken from his portemanteau, to administer to his comfort, he noticed a small pocket Bible.”

“I started later & only got to Rodborough turnpike, we sent the donkey cart for his portemanteau; […]”

“Perhaps they are very intimate and he only came to Pineside for the purpose of being near her. If I thought this, I should go on my knees to mamma concerning the matter of making him pack his portemanteau instantly.”

“A. Lovrek, of Vienna, for “Improvements in the shape and arrangement of portemanteaus.”—2 years.—(Public.)—Dated 13th May, 1873.”

“They travelled on as proposed. From Boston (where Eugene found his portemanteau, which he had telegraphed to have sent there) to New York, from New York up the Hudson, between tree-clothed villa-dotted banks, or pale cliffs beetling and bare, at whose foot could be seen darting along, like brilliant snakes, long trains of cars painted brightest orange or vermilion.”

““I shall place them in my portman-tell,” said Gashwiler, suiting the word to the action, “for safe keeping. I need not inform you, who are now, as it were, on the threshold of official life, that perfect and inviolable secrecy in all affairs of State”—Mr. G. here motioned toward his portemanteau as if it contained a treaty at least—“is most essential and necessary.””

“What capital fun, quite a romance, so we will just arrange, that until further notice, I will call myself, and others will call me, Mr. Skulk, a new arrival, prospecting for land, in light marching order, like a regular greenhorn, as he is lost his portemanteaux, and all his clothes, and has to write to Madras for more, although when they will be here, if ever at all, over these wretched roads, it is impossible to say.”

“Coachman and guard assisted in securing the portemanteaus and carpet-bags of the counsellors.”

“After a brief period of uneasy slumber he sprang to his feet, and busied himself in packing his portemanteau.”

“Its hot parching breath, laden with minute sand and dust particles, suffocates man and beast, penetrates every crevice in boat and baggage, clogs the works of watches, and permeates everything so effectually that the Khamâsîn dust has usually to be shaken out of portemanteaux when they are unpacked in England.”

“So he packs his portemanteau, and pays his hotel bill, and off he goes to the station without saying a word to anybody, and—and—here he is, wishing very much to make a clean breast of it, but in oh! such an awful funk that he doesn’t know how to begin.”

“I’ve been to their home years ago, with my master; I carried his portemanteau.”

“An entry was made of soft goods with the required declaration in verification, but no mention was made of portemanteaux and hats which were packed in cases with the other goods.”

“He packs his portemanteau, telling Harold he is going for a trip to the country, and bids farewell to all those tender ties and associations of five long years’ duration.”

“In another case the pencil sketches of an artist placed in his portemanteau were held not to be part of his ordinary baggage, so as to enable them to be conveyed free of charge.”

“Fontenay locked up these relics in his portemanteau, saying to himself that if the fortune of war took him into Poland at some period to come, he might give them to the parents of the brave soldier who had saved his life.”

“Trunks, valises, portemanteaus, and hand bags containing goods shall be subject to the duties stipulated for them in the tariff, and the goods shall be separately cleared, with their proper interior packages.”

“He carried an overcoat on his arm, but he had “caught on” by the time he reached the hotel, and the retinue bidden to relegate to the bottommost parts of the portemanteaus all the wintry apparel that had been prepared for the trip to this city.”

“There were knickerbockers in one of his portemanteaux.”

“The youth accepted the offer, notified his master of his purpose, packed his portemanteau, and went out to begin a new life.”

“This time, he is thrust aside by the vigorous young arm of Guglielmo, a young gentleman who has just stepped into the inn-yard, closely followed by a servant carrying his portemanteau.”

“[…] amiability after the continued abstractions of Monsieur Davol, who followed up the steps carrying his bundle of books and his portemanteaux, with the sobriety of some steward or upper servant intent […]”

“He went back for a moment to the stage-coach to open his portemanteau. […] When Thomasius, accompanied by a lad who carried his portemanteau, knocked at the door of the low parsonage, it flew open immediately and five pairs of childish eyes stared at him. […] Cheerfully enough, however, he slipped out of his damp cloak and shoes, drew from his portemanteau a romance of the kind of which he read many, and stretched himself out on the pallet.”

“Once arrived in Strasbourg, on Saturday, June 22 last, and having ascertained with some difficulty the whereabouts of a couple of portemanteaux shipped by rail, we were delightfully entertained by Professor and Mme. Monod, who gave us the opportunity to meet a number of the members of the Faculty of the University of Strasbourg, where Professor Horton had been a student.”

“Not true what chronicles is bringing his portemanteau priamed full potatowards.”

“His portemanteau crammed with drawings, Bellanca left Italy for the United States three years before World War I.”

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