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Definition of Portoises
1. portoise [n] - See also: portoise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portoises
Literary usage of Portoises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1841)
"This had made the offices swell out of measure ; and there was a great variety
of them,—Missals, Breviaries, Rituals, Pontificals, portoises, Pies, ..."
2. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"This had made the offices swell out of measure, and there was a great variety of
them ; missals, breviaries, rituals, pontificals, portoises, ..."
3. A Summary of the History of the English Church and of the Sects which Have by Johnson Grant (1811)
"... hours, pies, psalteries, portoises, and; pontificals, which it consumed one
half of life to Study, and the other to practise, did not start away to the ..."
4. A history of the reformation of the Church of England. 3 vols. [in 6]. by Gilbert Burnet (1816)
"... swell out of measure, and there was a great variety of them ; missals,
breviaries, rituals, pontificals, portoises, pies, graduals, ..."
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