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Sublime Porte

[pawrt, pohrt]
–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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