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- proper noun Obsolete form of
Portugal .
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Examples
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Jackson, a "Portingall," and Alexander Faith, a steward to the Venice
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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He left Goa on 20th February 1847, taking as usual a pattymar, his mind vibrant with thoughts of his great hero, the "Portingall"
The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906
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He left Goa on 20th February 1847, taking as usual a pattymar, his mind vibrant with thoughts of his great hero, the "Portingall"
The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897
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The 10. we had a letter from Cornelis Houtman, to wil vs to come to them, for that there they had founde a good place for water, and all other necessaries, so that about euening wee set sayle, leauing two of our men and a Portingall slaue among the Indians, whome the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Pepper Portingall waight, there likewise you haue great store of frankencense, Camphora, and some Diamants: but they haue no other kinde of money but a certaine peece called Caixa, as bigge as a
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Portingall tongue, may do them as good seruice, as those that shall be here two yeeres before him: for then we may buy a slaue that can speake this language and the Portingal tongue also, which shall then interprete vnto vs in all your secret doings, not making the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Iaua, but this man because of his badde life was not much accounted of: he spake good Portingall, for his mother was a Portingall woman borne in Malacca: This Emperour had conspired against vs with the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Catten waight of China, each Catte as much as 20. ounces Portingall waight, and each sacke is worth in that Country at the least 5000.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Portingall, young Count Lodouick of Nassaw, and the Admirall of the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Lemons and Citrons are there greater and better then in Portingall:
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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