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portmanteau

[pawrt-man-toh, pawrt-man-toh] / pɔrtˈmæn toʊ, ˌpɔrt mænˈtoʊ /
NOUN
suitcase
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“There’s a certain idea of what ‘holiday decor’ is supposed to look like,” says Sunyoung “Sunny” Hong, owner of Portmanteau Home, a North Seattle studio that specializes in multicultural home design.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 11, 2021

Her Portmanteau A Nigerian immigrant and her two daughters confront their family's legacy in the West Coast premiere of Mfoniso Udofia's drama.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2018

Portmanteau productions can have a cobbled-together, Frankenstein’s Monster feel to them but he insists there’s a continuity to this one.

From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2017

As Mrs. Onassis, Jackie brought Billy Baldwin and the Tilletts to Skorpios to work on the Greek villa her husband, Aristotle, was building, and furnished the seed money for the couple’s Manhattan shop, Portmanteau.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2012

You have this to do still; make ready my Portmanteau quickly.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius




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