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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
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
La Porte
[luh pawrt, pohrt] –noun
| 1. | a city in NW Indiana. 21,796. |
| 2. | a town in S Texas. 14,062. |
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| Porte (pôrt, pōrt) n. The government of the Ottoman Empire. [French, short for la Sublime Porte, the High Gate, from Old French porte, gate; see port3.] |
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Porte
Porte\, n. [F. porte a gate, L. porta. See Port a gate.] 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : porte
Spanish:
porte,
German:
die Haltung,
Japanese:
態度
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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