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Sublime Porte

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Sublime Porte

  [pawrt, pohrt]
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–noun
official name of Porte.

Porte

  [pawrt, pohrt]
–noun
the former Ottoman court or government in Turkey.
Official name, Sublime Porte.

Origin:
short for Sublime Porte High Gate, F trans. of the Turkish official title Babιâli, with reference to the palace gate at which justice was administered
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Porte 
"Ottoman court at Constantinople," 1609, from Fr., la Sublime Porte, translation of Arabic bab-i-'aliy, lit. "lofty gate," official name of the central office of the Ottoman government (cf. Vatican for "the Papacy," Kremlin for "the U.S.S.R."). Supposedly a ref. to the ancient custom of holding royal audience in the doorway of a king's palace or tent.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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