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porteous - What does it mean?

Definition of 'porteous'

English

Alternative forms

* portesse

Noun

(porteouses)
  • (historical) A portable breviary.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:
  • And in his hand his Portesse still he bare, / That much was worne, but therein little red, / For of deuotion he had little care [...].