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  • adjective Fitted with portholes.

Etymologies

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porthole +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • A gleaming silver retro-Thunderbird sportster with a portholed hardtop.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • A gleaming silver retro-Thunderbird sportster with a portholed hardtop.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • The camera pulled back to reveal that the man was strapped naked to a steel table like he had seen in the yacht's kitchen, resting upright against a portholed wall.

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • This is the kind of fellow to walk a frigate's deck and bowl his broadsides into the "Gallant Thunderbomb," or any forty-portholed adventurer who would like to exchange a few tons of iron compliments.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

  • But Neeland, dining from a tray in a portholed pit consecrated to the use of a casual supercargo, rejoiced because he adored the sea, inland lubber that he had been born and where the tides of fate had stranded him.

    The Dark Star William Dodge Stevens 1899

  • From the show's premiere in 1969 until around 2002, Big Bird lived among a playscape of brightly painted, portholed oil barrels.

    Daddy Types greg 2010

  • Their portholed lounge looks like it belonged on a luxury ocean liner.

    Technology news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Powered by either a 260 hp, 3.0L direct injected V6 or a 280-hp 3.6L, it should offer performance to match its portholed good looks.

    Autoblog 2009

  • Powered by either a 260 hp, 3.0L direct injected V6 or a 280-hp 3.6L, it should offer performance to match its portholed good looks.

    Autoblog 2009

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