porteress
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]porteress (plural porteresses)
- Alternative form of portress
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 205:
- The door opened; a bright gleam of sunshine shot into the room, but darkened instantly as the porteress admitted the visitor.
References
[edit]- “porteress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.