porteous
See also: Porteous
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From Anglo-Norman porteose, portehos, Old French portehors, from porte + hors (“outside”).
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porteous (plural porteouses)
- (historical) A portable breviary.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And in his hand his Portesse still he bare, / That much was worne, but therein little red, / For of deuotion he had little care [...].
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- portuary (obsolete)