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Definition of Portesse
1. n. See Porteass.
Definition of Portesse
1. Noun. (obsolete spelling of porteous) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Portesse
1. a portable book of devotions [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portesse
Literary usage of Portesse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lay Folks Mass Book; Or, The Manner of Hearing Mass: With Rubrics and by Dan Jeremy, John Lydgate (1879)
"But now, I warrant you, you must turn your tippet, and lay away your old mumpsimus,
and shut up'your portesse(4) and your mass-book too, and put away clean ..."
2. The Stones of Venice: Introductory Chapters and Local Indices for the Use of by John Ruskin (1881)
"And in his hand his portesse still he bare, That much was worne, ... Observe that
subtle touch of truth in the " wearing" of the portesse, ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"PORTER (3), a dark kind of beer, orig. porter's beer (Wedgwood) ; see Fort (i).
portesse, PORTOS ... (F.,-L.) Spelt portesse in Spenser, FQ i. 4. 19. ..."
4. The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene by Robert Greene (1905)
"I : ' Arm'd with my portasse, bidding of my beades'; Look About You, sc. xxv : '
The hermit's portesse, garments and his beades' ; and Downfall of Robert ..."
5. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1874)
"Spenser uses the word, " Faerie Queene," bic iv.— 4' And in his hand his portesse
still he bare That much was worne," &c. ..."
6. Catholicon Anglicum: An English-Latin Wordbook, Dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1882)
"... Clergy of his time says, ' they made no further accompt of their priesthood,
than to construe, sing, read their seruice and their portesse.' The Manip. ..."
7. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"See portesse. PORT-CANNON, *. A sort of ornament for the knees, resembling stiff
boot-tops, or the holsters for pistols ; called also ..."
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