portance

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French - English
{n} capacity (Physics); bearing; lift, height to which something is raised
English - English
The manner in which one carries oneself; personal carriage; bearing; deportment; mien

for in court gay portaunce he perceiu'd, / And gallant shew to be in greatest gree .

{n} port, carriage, behavior
See Port, carriage, demeanor
A pig; a porket
The quality or state of
A young hog; a pig
Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing
A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution
The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies
Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies
Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood
Lascivious; licentious
portance

    Synonyms

    port

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    () Middle French portance (“a carrying, support”), from porter (“to carry”) Latin portare (“carry, bear, convey”).
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