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portières

portières is the plural of portière.

Meaning of portière

Noun

portière (plural portières)

  1. A car door.
  2. A hanging, such as a heavy curtain, placed over a door or doorway; a door curtain.
    • Carefully unfolding it, he spread it on the floor. It proved to be a curtain or portière, beautifully stencilled with a design on roses.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

Questions about portières

What is portières the plural of?
Portières is the plural of portière.

Words near portières in the dictionary

  1. portise
  2. portises
  3. Portishead
  4. portière
  5. portièred
  6. portières
  7. Portknockie
  8. portland
  9. Portland Bill
  10. portland cement
  11. portland cements

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Adapted from Wiktionary: portières (page history and authors); portière (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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