porte-monnaie
See also: portemonnaie and Portemonnaie
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French porte-monnaie.
Noun
porte-monnaie (plural porte-monnaies)
- A wallet.
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- She saw without looking that her mother pressed a little clasp; heard, without wanting to, the sharp click that marked the closing portemonnaie from which something had been taken.
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
French
Related terms
Descendants
- Dutch: portemonnee
- → Papiamentu: pòtmòni
- English: porte-monnaie
- German: Portemonnaie
Further reading
- “porte-monnaie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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