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Definition of: Porte
(pôrt, pōrt) noun
The former Turkish government: with the: officially called the Sublime Porte. [<F (la Sublime) Porte (the High) Gate, trans. of Turkish Babi Ali, the chief office of the Ottoman Empire]
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