Portmanteau (luggage)

A 16-inch Gladstone bag made of ox leather

A portmanteau is a piece of luggage, usually made of leather and opening into two equal parts. Some were large, upright, and hinged at the back and enabled hanging up clothes in one half,^[1] while others are much smaller bags (such as Gladstone bags) with two equally sized compartments.^[2] The word comes from the French word portemanteau (from porter meaning "to carry" and manteau meaning "coat"),^[3]^[4] which nowadays means a coat rack but was in the past also used to refer to a traveling case or bag for clothes.^[5]^[6]

References

^ http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/portmanteau
^ "A History of Vintage Luggage". Retrieved January 16, 2014.
^ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/portmanteau
^ http://www.answers.com/topic/portmanteau-new-word
^ Petit Robert: portemanteau - "malle penderie" (suitcase in which clothes hang)
^ "portemanteau" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language)

Bags and flexible containers

Carried	Bindle Birkin bag Briefcase Coin purse Dillybag Handbag Haversack It Bag Kelly bag Medical bag Money bag Shell purse Tote bag Wallet

Worn	Backpack Bivouac sack Book bag Fanny pack Golf bag Lightweight Rucksack Medicine bag Messenger bag Randoseru Sabretache Satchel Sporran

Luggage	Battle bag Carpet bag Diaper bag Diplomatic bag / pouch Dopp bag Duffel bag Gig bag Gladstone bag Holdall Portmanteau Saddlebag Suitcase Travel pack Trunk

Postal	Catcher pouch Mail bag Mail pouch Mail sack Mail satchel Padded mailer Mochila Portmanteau

Containers	Antistatic bag Bag-in-box Bin bag Bota bag Milk bag Paper bag Parfleche Pipe bag Plastic bag Reusable shopping bag Sachet Shopping bag Thermal bag Tobacco pouch Zipper storage bag

Other	Airbag Airsickness bag Ambu bag Biodegradable bag Body bag Bug-out bag Burn bag Cradleboard Dry bag Duluth pack Feedbag Gamow bag Gunny sack Papoose Punching bag Sandbag Schultüte Sleeping bag String bag Stuff sack Suicide bag Survival kit Swag (bedroll)

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Portmanteau (luggage)