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Definition of Portigue
1. n. See Portague.
Definition of Portigue
1. Noun. (alternative form of portague) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Portigue
1. an old Portuguese coin [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portigue
Literary usage of Portigue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... of a portigue, used jocosely in speaking of a gold coin (a portigue), as
eatable meat, to starving sailors, Fletcher, Sea Voyage, i. ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"The jest here consists in speaking of a gold coin (a portigue) as eatable meat,
to starving sailors, whose avarice had ruined all. ..."
3. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1857)
"... with the long cross and the short, the portigue, a piece very solemnly kept
of divers, and yet ofttimes abased with washing or ..."