Porte

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Porte \Porte\, n. [F. porte a gate, L. porta. See {Port} a
     gate.]
     The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire,
     officially called the {Sublime Porte}, from the gate (port)
     of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Porte
       n : the Ottoman court in Constantinople [syn: {Sublime Porte}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PORTER. The name of an ancient English officer who bore or carried a rod 
  before the justices. The door-keeper of the English parliament also bears 
  this name. 
       2. One who is employed as a common carrier to carry goods from one 
  place to another in the same town, is also called a porter. Such person is 
  in general answerable as a common carrier. Story, Bailm. Sec. 496.