portière

See also: portiere and Portiere

English

Alternative forms

• portiere

Etymology

From French portière, derived from porte (“door”) + -ière.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /poɹˈtjɛɹ/, /poɹ.tiˈɛɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɔːtɪˈɛə/

Noun

portière (plural portières)

1. A car door.
2. 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.

     Penguin 2006, p. 240

Synonyms

• door curtain

Derived terms

• portièred

Translations

hanging over a doorway

• Bulgarian: завеса на входна врата (zavesa na vhodna vrata)
• Finnish: oviverho

References

• “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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.tjɛʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

portière f (plural portières)

1. female equivalent of portier

   Hyponym: tourière

2. car door

Derived terms

• emportiérer
• emportiérage

Related terms

• porte

Further reading

• “portière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• prétoire