porteaiguille (portagwel)

[F., porte-bonheur (port'bo-nėr'), n. [F., porte-cochère (põrt'kō-shar'), n. [ F.porte cochère: porte, gate; cochère, street to an interior court. Philip was at the Hôtel des Bains at a very early hour next morning, and there he saw the general, with a woeworn face, leaning on his stick, and looking at his luggage, as it lay piled in the porte - cochère of the hotel. Thackeray , Philip, xvi. The great, wide porte - cochère in front, and the little back gate on the street in the rear. See New Princeton Rev., IV. 363. port - crayon. In to the town were but two entrees, and at eche entre porte-crayon, n. two port eco lyses and stronge yates covered with Iren nailed, portedt (ported), a. [ that shet with two leves well and strongly barred. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 254. Everich hadde, withoute fable, A porte - colys defensable. Rom. of the Rose, 1. 4168. Pull up portcullize! down draw-brigg! My nephews are at hand. ing gates. These bright keys Where be those rosy cheeks that lately scorn'd The malice of injurious fates? Ah! where's that pearl portcullis that adorn'd Those dainty two-leav'd gates? Quarles , Emblems, ii. 9. IMG:content-0677.png:[blocks in formation] Port Egmont hen. See hen1. porteguet, n. See portugue.