Porte
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Porte /pɔːt/ (in full Sublime or Ottoman Porte)
▶noun the Ottoman court at Constantinople.
– origin C17: from Fr. la Sublime Porte ‘the exalted gate’, translation of the Turk. title of the central office of the Ottoman government.
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