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portsales

portsales is the plural of portsale.

Meaning of portsale

Noun

portsale (plural portsales)

  1. (obsolete) public or open sale; auction
    • Five thousand sixe hundred and two and thirtie persons were sold out-right in port-sale under the guirland1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book XLI]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC

Questions about portsales

What is portsales the plural of?
Portsales is the plural of portsale.

Words near portsales in the dictionary

  1. ports
  2. ports of call
  3. ports of entry
  4. ports.
  5. portsale
  6. portsales
  7. Portsalon
  8. portscan
  9. portscanned
  10. portscanner
  11. portscanners

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