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He is going to a dinner of ceremony, and he will have his costume of ceremony in the portmaneau.
My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883
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This kind of blend, dubbed a ` portmaneau "by Lewis Carroll, is often a deliberate creation rather than a lapsus linguae.
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