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Porte   /pɔrt/   Listen
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Porte  n.  The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire, officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.






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"Porte" Quotes from Famous Books



... came to see Samuel Brohl, who is a business-man, and it is a commercial transaction that I intend to hold with him." And drawing from his pocket a porte-monnaie, he added: "You see I do not ...
— Samuel Brohl & Company • Victor Cherbuliez

... the policeman dashed toward the porte-cochere, while I ducked back into the room, rapidly revolving my chances of cutting off the man's retreat below. If the system of numbering was the same on every floor, my thief must, of course, emerge from Room 303. But this similarity ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti

... my friends were telling me. It was in this square that the Crown Prince was to receive the surrender of the town. Along the road we had climbed he was to lead his victorious army through the town and out the Porte de France beyond. In this square the Kaiser was to stand and review the army, to greet his victorious son. The scene as it had been arranged was almost rehearsed for you in the gestures of the ...
— They Shall Not Pass • Frank H. Simonds

... soignee jusqu'a ce qu'elle was been dead; he l'a enterree—place in de terre—airth, an' moi he haf place chez un farmyer a Mo'real. An' le Pere Honore was tak' la petite verole—shmall pookes in de sugair-house, an' de farmyer was gif him to eat an' to drrink par la porte—de door; de farmyer haf non passe par de door. Le Pere Honore m'a sauve—haf safe, hein? An' Ah was been work ten, twenty, dirty year, Ah tink. Ah gagne—gain, hein?—two hundert pieces. Ah been come to de quairries, pour l'amour de bon Pere Honore qui m'a ...
— Flamsted quarries • Mary E. Waller

... of daily work at the office, with agreeable companions, and of evenings spent at the theatre or in study. On the first night I went to the Porte-Sainte-Martin Theatre, where a melodrama, "The Vampire," was presented, and fell into conversation with my neighbour, a man of about forty, of fascinating discourse, who was inordinately impatient with the ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IX. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton


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