Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Portugal
- abbreviation Portuguese
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Examples
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“Jalájal” = small bells for falcons: in Port. cascaveis, whence our word.
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` I tell you, 'replied our gracefully recumbent hero, ` that it is so, Coridon; and I ascribe it to your partiality for that detestable wine called Port.
Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820
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#41@Kelly in SD: Adams has been not been healthy for 2 years and just returned so his Port. work may not be indicative of his value if healthy.
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We get it direct from the Port. nababo, see quotation from Bluteau below. (b) It began to be applied in the 18th century, when the transactions of Clive made the epithet familiar in England, to Anglo-Indians who returned with fortunes from the East; and Foote's play of 'The Nabob' (Nabob) (1768) aided in giving general currency to the word in this sense.
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