portuary
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[edit]Noun
[edit]portuary (plural portuaries)
- (obsolete) A portable breviary; a porteous.
- 1823, John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth:
- The Queen's private devotions […] which she performed after the custom of her Religion out of her own portuary, with her beads and crucifix, sometimes in the Latin, and sometimes in the English tongue.