portière

See also: portiere and Portiere

English

Alternative forms

• portiere

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French portière, feminine of portier (“porter”).

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, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 240:

     Carefully unfolding it, he spread it on the floor. It proved to be a curtain or portière, beautifully stencilled with a design on roses.

Synonyms

• door curtain

Translations

hanging over a doorway

• Finnish: oviverho
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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.tjɛʁ/

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Noun

portière f (plural portières)

1. (deprecated template usage) feminine equivalent of portier
2. car door

Derived terms

• emportiérage

Related terms

• porte

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• prétoire