porte-monnaie

See also: portemonnaie and Portemonnaie

English

Alternative forms

portemonnaie

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.

Anagrams

metanopirone

French

Noun

porte-monnaie m (plural porte-monnaie)

purse

See also

portefeuille

Further reading

“porte-monnaie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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