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- noun A
wallet .
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Examples
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Now that I'm grown up, and as I go about managing my own porte-monnaie, * I realize such exceptions eventually come at a price.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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Now that I'm grown up, and as I go about managing my own porte-monnaie, * I realize such exceptions eventually come at a price.
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Stéphane: là, à priori, c'est de mon porte-monnaie qu'il s'agit.
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Now that I'm grown up, and as I go about managing my own porte-monnaie,* I realize such exceptions eventually come at a price.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old porte-monnaie gave her a feeling of importance such as she had not enjoyed for years.
The Awakening 2000
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It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old porte-monnaie gave her a feeling of importance such as she had not enjoyed for years.
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By that time Fred had drawn forth my porte-monnaie.
Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories Frances Henshaw Baden
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Without discovery I put what I washed into one, and was about slipping my porte-monnaie into the other, when my hand was caught with such a grip that I screamed right out.
Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories Frances Henshaw Baden
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Has any one here lost this? 'he asked, holding up my porte-monnaie.
Edna's Sacrifice and Other Stories Frances Henshaw Baden
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I never hear the musical jingling of splintered glass, but my _porte-monnaie_ gives a convulsive throb in my breast-pocket.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various
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