portmanteau - use in sentences

Adjective modifier

  • small: Each officer to be allowed to take a carpet-bag or small portmanteau.
  • black: What, he asked himself, had been the contents of the black portmanteau?

Modifies a noun

  • word: Many are portmanteau words - where two meanings are packed into one word.
  • film: Eros Odd portmanteau film detailing three episodes built around erotic feelings.
  • tag: A set of fifteen such portmanteau tags have been declared, covering the major pairs of confusable tags.
  • term: It seems to me undeniable that the word ' normal ' is what philosophers of the fifties primly termed " portmanteau terms " .
  • horror: Chaucer and Journey's End present obvious parallels, as do all the portmanteau horror films from the 1970s produced by Hammer.

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