ante-port

plural ante-ports

1. alternativeAlternative form of anteport.

   Before the entrance to this Narthex hung a rich embroidered ante-port given by Andronicus-Palaeologus, and showing his monograms.

   1904, W[illiam] R[ichard] Lethaby, “Later Byzantine, and Romanesque Origins”, in Mediæval Art: From the Peace of the Church to the Eve of the Renaissance, 312–1350, London: Duckworth and Co.; New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 79

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   There is but one, avenue to the Caſtle, and that not imbelliſhed as of old with the famous Ante-Port called Propylæa, whoſe magnificent ſtructure coſt as many Talents as amounts of our money to Two Millions and ſix hundred Livers, which went very high in an age when the Salary of one of their Soveraign Judges was but 4 d. per diem.

   1676, Monsieur de la Guillatiere [pseudonym; Georges Guillet], anonymous translator, “Book II.”, in An Account of a Late Voyage to Athens, Containing the Estate Both Ancient and Modern of That Famous City, and of the Present Empire of the Turks: […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman, […], →OCLC, page 178

   The highest idea of society, said Mr. [M. D.] Gage, is founded upon our conception of Heaven. Earth is the ante-port of Heaven, and, by the law, man is made a little lower than the angels.

   1871 October 5, “Work of the Young Men’s Christian Association”, in G. M. Overstreet & Co., editors, Neosho Valley Register, volume 5, number 40, Iola, Kan.: G. M. Overstreet & Co., →OCLC, page [3], column 3

   Some idea of the Palazzo Vecchio, with its ante-port, may be obtained from a curious old fresco which still exists, though in a damaged condition, on the wall of the staircase of the old Debtor’s Prison, the “Stinche.”

   1873, Susan Horner, Joanna Horner, “Palazzo Vecchio della Signoria”, in Walks in Florence, volume I, London: Strahan & Co. […], →OCLC, pages 256–257