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Definition of Portagues
1. portague [n] - See also: portague
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portagues
Literary usage of Portagues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"Coz, for those words here's thirty portagues,10 And, nephew Askew, there's a few
for you. Fair Honor, in her loftiest eminence, Stays in France for you, ..."
2. The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last by Walter Scott (1833)
"So saying, he pulled ut a great ammunition-pouch market! swan-shot, nd showed
Morton, hastily, that it was full of Span- jn pistoles and portagues (as the ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"Have you brought pistolets," or portagues, My solemn Don? [to FACE.] Dost thou
feel any? FACE, (feels his pockets.) Full. SUB. You shall be emptied, Don, ..."
4. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"He-sides, my girl, think me not all so fond * As negligently to forego so much
Without provision for thyself and me : «e Ten thousand portagues,0 besides ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Kyd by Thomas Kyd (1901)
"... with my Balthazar— 1 't is K10 -K -18 -23 -33 4 be sir 1590,1602 -10 -15 -18 :
be done sir 1623 -33 5 the 1602 -10 -K -18 -23 -33 portagues 1602: ..."
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