Porte
[pɒ:t]
Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Turkish court, Sublime Porte.
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Definition
n. the Turkish government so called from the 'High Gate ' or 'Sublime Porte ' the chief office of the Ottoman government.
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Examples
- La première qui ouvrira cette porte, ou passera par cette division, sera pendue--fut-ce Madame Beck elle-même! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is my private estate, and, as I have always kept friends with the Sublime Porte, there is no chance of it being taken from me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Madame, _la voiture est à la porte_, said my French maid, as she entered my bedroom. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And I recollect your Ladyship, and my Lady Blanche, your daughter, sitting in the carriage in the porte-cochere at the Inn, waiting for horses. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He discarded the original porte-rule and type of the transmitter for the key or lever, moved up and down by hand to complete or break the circuit. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Her intrigues with Russia for the furtherance of her object, excited the jealousy of the Porte, and the animosity of the Greek government. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A brass-plate embellished the great porte-cochère: Pensionnat de Demoiselles was the inscription; and beneath, a nameMadame Beck. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Dallas conjectured; and moving toward the porte-cochere he put his head into the porter's lodge, and came back to say: The fifth. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Et tu te portes toujours bien, bonne s?ur? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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