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nounportuary (plural portuaries)
plural portuaries
- obsoleteA portable breviary; a porteous.
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.
1823, John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth
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portuary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/portuary
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“portuary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/portuary. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “portuary,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/portuary.
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