Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
portass .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
porteass .
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- noun Obsolete spelling of
porteous .
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Examples
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Observe that subtle touch of truth in the "wearing" of the portesse, indicating the abuse of books by idle readers, so thoroughly characteristic of unwilling studentship from the schoolboy upwards.
Stones of Venice [introductions] John Ruskin 1859
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