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porte-monnaie

porte-monnaie noun: a wallet.

Noun

porte-monnaie (plural porte-monnaies)

  1. A wallet.
    • 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

porte-monnaie meaning in Tamil

porte-monnaie in Tamil

பணப்பை, குட்டையேடு

Forms of porte-monnaie

pluralporte-monnaies
alternative formportemonnaie

Origin of porte-monnaie

From French porte-monnaie.

Questions about porte-monnaie

What does porte-monnaie mean?
Porte-monnaie means a wallet.
What is porte-monnaie in Tamil?
Porte-monnaie in Tamil is பணப்பை, குட்டையேடு. See Porte-monnaie meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is porte-monnaie?
Porte-monnaie is a noun.
What is the plural of porte-monnaie?
The plural of porte-monnaie is porte-monnaies.

Words near porte-monnaie in the dictionary

  1. porte-cochere
  2. porte-cocheres
  3. porte-cochère
  4. porte-crayon
  5. porte-crayons
  6. porte-monnaie
  7. porte-monnaies
  8. porte-parole
  9. porte-épée
  10. ported
  11. Portee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: porte-monnaie (page history and authors); porte-monnaie (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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