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Definition of Portress
1. n. A female porter.
Definition of Portress
1. Noun. a female porter (person in control of the entrance to a building) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Portress
1. a female doorkeeper [n -ES] - See also: doorkeeper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portress
Literary usage of Portress
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: To which are Added a Few Poems by Alexander Hill Everett (1845)
"... THE portress A BALLAD. ;Democratic Kevien, April, 1844.; L'ENVOI. ToM.1.
FAIR Saint I who, in thy brightest day Of life's meridian joys, Hast turn'd thy ..."
2. Mexico: Its Peasants and Its Priests: Or, Adventures and Historical by Robert Anderson Wilson (1856)
"Improved Condition of the Peons.—Mexican Mechanics.—The Oppression they suffer.—Low
state of the Mechanic Arts.—The Story of the portress. ..."
3. Bramble-bees and Others by Jean-Henri Fabre (1915)
"... THE portress I EAVING our village is no very serious •*-' matter when we are
children. We even look on it as a sort of holiday. ..."
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