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Definition of Portigues
1. portigue [n] - See also: portigue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portigues
Literary usage of Portigues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society by Middlesex Local History Council (1870)
"To Marie Cooke, three " portigues. ... five " portigues." To his cousin Skinner
101. and to his cousin Ogle 5l. To John Escott his servant, 31. 5s. 8d. ..."
2. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1914)
"I have put him just, sir, under the duke's chamber. 5 Leon. It is the better.
Altea. [He] has giv'n me royally, And to my lady a whole load of portigues. ..."
3. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"portigues« COSTUME OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY Some portion of obscurity hangs over
the fate of the adventurous Sebastian himself. But little real doubt can ..."
4. The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston: K.B., of Skreens, in the Hundred of by Sir John Bramston, Baron Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1845)
"... tho' longe, I thinck fitt to insert ; and is thus, as it was translated by
Sir Robert Southwell, Clerke of the Councill, out of portigues language, ..."
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