portefeuillen.
/pɔːtˈfəːj/, /pɔːtˈfɔɪ/, U.S. /ˌpɔrtˈfəi/, /ˌpɔrtˈfɔɪ/, /ˌpɔrtˈfwi/ 1. = portfolio n. 1.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > case or container > [noun] > for papers, maps, music, etc.
portefeuillea1671
portfolio1713
solander1788
spring-back1863
filer1874
a1671 A. Balfour Lett. (1700) 33 Forget not to preserve a Branch or two, which You may fold in your Portefoile, which for such rancounters you'l do well to be stil provided of..and have them furnished with Gray Paper within.
1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 92 He shewed his Portefeuilles in Folio, of Red Spanish Leather finely adorned.
1745 tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Robert Chevalier II. v. 182 I had scarce Strength to hold out my Hand to her, to receive the Portefeuille of the Count.
1768 in Notes & Queries (1906) 10th Ser. 6 466/1 Ninety-five capital drawings..in two Russia portefeuilles.
1815 F. Burney Jrnl. in Jrnls. & Lett. (1980) VIII. 530 Neither..were of any avail, till he was forced to condescend to search his port-feuille for a Passport.
1847 R. Anderson Let. 19 June in Artillery Officer in Mexican War (1911) 217 My poor letter now rests quietly amid the leaves of my old portefeuille.
1888 Times 5 Oct. 9/4 The robbery, which was committed in the office of the Crédit Lyonnais at Lyons, the notes being stolen from the portefeuille of a collecting-clerk.
1908 Elyria (Ohio) Chron. 27 Mar. All these objects of beauty are the work of our own hands. This portefeuille is mine.
1995 New Left Rev. Mar. 59 A young nobleman, the comte d'Hoorn, stabbed a broker for his portefeuille of banknotes on 22 March and, over the appeals of his royal relations, was broken on the wheel four days later.
2. = portfolio n. 1b.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government minister > [noun] > office or position of
ministership1567
ministryship1730
portefeuille1756
portfolio1781
1756 S. Foote Englishman Return'd from Paris i. 28 Attend me with my Port-feuille, and read, while I dress, those Remarks I made in my last Voyage.
1776 N. Brit. Intelligencer 1 308/1 This morning at ten o'Clock, Mr Bertin went to Mr Turgot, to demand his Portefeuille.
1792 Amer. State Papers, Foreign (1832) I. 390 The portefeuille was given to Monsieur Delessart.
1836 Lady H. Stanhope Mem. (1845) I. x. 369 It was not Napoleon that he was so much attached to; it was to him who had the portefeuille.
1843 Times 6 May 6/3 The Marchioness of Abercorn has resigned her portefeuille as one of the Ladies Patronesses.
1877 Times 3 Jan. 10/1 His habitual taciturnity..found little favour in the eyes of the late Sultan, who on one occasion deprived him of the war portefeuille.
1938 W. R. Sharp Govt. French Republic 93 The political burden of ‘leading’ the government has become so formidable that prime ministers sans portefeuille are likely in the future to be rather the rule than otherwise.
1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 Sept. vii. 12/1 Mr. Duerr's heart is with the historian and philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend, but his head (if not his academic portefeuille) belongs to Wittgenstein.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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