portance
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French portance (“a carrying, support”), from porter (“to carry”), from Latin portare (“carry, bear, convey”).
Noun edit
portance (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The manner in which one carries oneself; behaviour.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] for in court gay portaunce he perceiu'd, / And gallant shew to be in greatest gree […]
Synonyms edit
- port (also a dated/archaic sense)
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Noun edit
portance f (plural portances)
- lift (upward force, such as that which keeps an aircraft aloft)
- bearing pressure
Further reading edit
- “portance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.