porteous

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman porteose, portehos, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French portehors, from porte + hors (“outside”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

porteous (plural porteouses)

  1. (historical) A portable breviary.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iv:
      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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