portass

Etymology

Old French porte-hors (“a kind of portable prayer-book”).

noun

  1. (obsolete) A breviary; a prayer book.
    Their portases, bedes, temples, aultars. 1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches
    Let me see your portous, gentle sir John. 1565, Robert Wever, An Enterlude called lusty Juventus
    Boner hath set up again in Paules Salesburi Latin portace. 1553, [unknown translator], Stephen Gardiner, De vera obedientia

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