English

Noun

portmantua ‎(plural portmantuas)

1. A variant form of portmanteau (the case).
   • ca. 1500 Then Little John took the bishop's cloak, And spread it upon the ground, And out of the bishop's portmantua, He told three hundred pound. — Anonymous: Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1898)