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porte

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Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

porten. [F. porte a gate, L. porta. See Port a gate.].
     The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire, officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

porte, n. (in full the Sublime or Ottoman Porte) hist. the Ottoman court at Constantinople.

Etymology
F (la Sublime Porte = the exalted gate), transl. of Turk. title of the central office of the Ottoman government

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