portière
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From French portière, derived from porte (“door”) + -ière.
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Noun[edit]
portière (plural portières)
- A car door.
- A hanging, such as a heavy curtain, placed over a door or doorway; a door curtain.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
- Carefully unfolding it, he spread it on the floor. It proved to be a curtain or portière, beautifully stencilled with a design on roses.
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Translations[edit]
hanging over a doorway
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References[edit]
- “portière”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “portière”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French[edit]
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portière f (plural portières)
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Further reading[edit]
- “portière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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