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A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit,
especially one that is grand and imposing. |
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The lesser gate, where there are two of different
dimensions. |
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Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from
the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to
another apartment. |
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By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers
for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes
the doorways and porches of a church. |
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The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these
are terminated by inclined braces. |
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A prayer book or breviary; a portass. |
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Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the
liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and
divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery. |
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