portague

English

Alternative forms

• portegue
• portigue

Etymology

See Portuguese.

Noun

portague (plural portagues)

1. (obsolete) An old Portuguese gold coin.
   • Marlowe

     ten thousand portagues, besides great pearls

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “portague”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)