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Definition of porte - 3 dictionary results
Portes Anciennes
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Porte

  [pawrt, pohrt]
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–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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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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