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porteouses

porteouses is the plural of porteous.

Meaning of porteous

Noun

porteous (plural porteouses)

  1. (historical) A portable breviary.
    • And in his hand his Portesse still he bare, / That much was worne, but therein little red, / For of deuotion he had little care [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    portuary

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Proper noun capitalized: Porteouses

Porteouses

  1. (plural) plural of Porteous

Questions about porteouses

What is porteouses the plural of?
Porteouses is the plural of porteous.
What part of speech is porteouses?
Porteouses is a proper noun.

Words near porteouses in the dictionary

  1. portentously
  2. portentousness
  3. portents
  4. portentuous
  5. porteous
  6. porteouses
  7. porter
  8. Porter County
  9. Porter Ranch
  10. porter's knot
  11. porter's lodge

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