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A portmanteau is a piece of
luggage Baggage or luggage consists of bags, cases, and containers which hold a traveler's personal articles while the traveler is in transit. A modern traveler can be expected to have packages containing clothing, toiletries, small possessions, trip ...
, usually made of leather and opening into two equal parts. Some are large, upright, and hinged at the back and enable hanging up clothes in one half, while others are much smaller bags (such as Gladstone bags) with two equally sized compartments. The word derives from the French word ''portemanteau'' (from ''porter'', "to carry", and ''manteau'', "coat") which nowadays means a coat rack but was in the past also used to refer to a traveling case or bag for clothes.


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