Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pocket-book; especially, a small book or leather pouch with clasps, for holding money.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small pocketbook or wallet for carrying money.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
porte-monnaie .
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Examples
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Mrs. Mackenzie briskly shut her portemonnaie, and rose up from table, quivering with indignant virtue.
The Newcomes 2006
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Upon putting my hand in my pocket for my portemonnaie, lo!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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In the country there are so many lurking-places, particularly in going through woods, whence a robber might pounce upon you all of a sudden and demand your life, or your portemonnaie, or your watch, or your rings, or something, that Miss
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various
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Ann, thinking an orange would moisten her throat, felt for her portemonnaie, and found it not; for, while she was so intently looking
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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I had none, not a kreutzer to my name, and my portemonnaie contained also my return railway-ticket!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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The box was in my inner pocket, the letter in a portemonnaie.
Rupert of Hentzau Anthony Hope 1898
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If you were to hand me your _portemonnaie_ now, full of notes and gold, and let me walk into the street with it, do you doubt that I should return?
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895
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I found my watch in these other trousers, and putting a hand in a pocket, fished out also my portemonnaie.
The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive Emerson Hough 1890
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The waiter had friends and fellow-conspirators, the boy had none, and when a grab was made for his portemonnaie he backed against the stone wall and whipped out his pygmy six-shooter.
A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Charles King 1888
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Miss Wallen consulted a memorandum on her desk, gravely searched through her portemonnaie, found some small coin and a two-dollar bill, then as gravely took two of the bills and handed him the ten, the two, and the small change.
A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Charles King 1888
qms commented on the word portemonnaie
There are some too refined to purvey
The commoners’ language for pay.
Despite what they call it
It still is a wallet
And no higher class as portemonnaie.
May 27, 2014