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porteress

porteress is the alternative form of portress.

Meaning of portress

Noun

portress (plural portresses)

  1. (dated, rare) A female porter (person in control of the entrance to a building)

Forms of porteress

pluralporteresses

Questions about porteress

What is porteress the alternative form of?
Porteress is the alternative form of portress.

Words near porteress in the dictionary

  1. Portera
  2. porterage
  3. porterages
  4. Porteras
  5. portered
  6. porteress
  7. porteresses
  8. Porterfield
  9. Porterfields
  10. porterhouse
  11. porterhouse steak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: porteress (page history and authors); portress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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