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bahut.

A portable coffer or chest with a rounded lid covered in leather, garnished with nails, once used for the transport of clothes or other personal luggage. It was the original portmanteau.

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noun/bəˈhʊt//bəˈhuːt/
  1. A portable coffer or chest with a rounded lid covered in leather, garnished with nails, once used for the transport of clothes or other personal luggage. It was the original portmanteau.

    obsolete
  2. A dwarf-wall of plain masonry, carrying the roof of a cathedral or church and masked or hidden behind the balustrade.

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French bahut, of unknown origin.

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