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Porteous — Porteous, Mitchell Braun Co., or simply Porteous, was a mid market department store based in Portland, Maine. Porteous was the largest department store based in Maine in the decades prior to other department store chains locating branches within… … Wikipedia
Porteous — Recorded in several spellings forms including Portus, Porteous, Portriss and Portress, this is arguably an Anglo Scottish surname, but of pre medieval French origins. Introduced into England after the Norman Invasion of 1066, it derives either… … Surnames reference
porteous — noun see porteous roll * * * porteous see portas. (Common in Sc. legal use.) … Useful english dictionary
Porteous's Tuco-tuco — Conservation status Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1] … Wikipedia
Porteous family — The Porteous family is an ancient Scottish Borders armigerous family.HistoryThe earliest records for members of the Porteous family in Peeblesshire date back to the early part of the fifteenth century. The earliest possible reference, according… … Wikipedia
Porteous Riots — The Porteous Riots surrounded the activities of Captain John Porteous, (ca. 1695 ndash; 1736), Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh, Scotland, who was lynched by a mob for his part in the killing of innocent civilians while ordering the men… … Wikipedia
Porteous Riots — ▪ Scottish history (1736), celebrated riots that erupted in Edinburgh over the execution of a smuggler. The incident had Jacobite overtones and was used by Sir Walter Scott in his novel The Heart of Midlothian. On April 14, 1736, a… … Universalium
PORTEOUS MOB — the name given a mob that collected in the city of Edinburgh on the night of the 7th September 1736, broke open the Tolbooth jail, and dragged to execution in the Grassmarket one Captain Porteous, captain of the City Guard, who on the occasion … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
porteous roll — ˈpōrtēəs noun or porteous ( es) Etymology: Middle English porthors, portous, portes, portable breviary, manual, from Old French portehors, from porter to carry + hors out, from Latin foris; akin to Latin fores door more at … Useful english dictionary
Porteous — A portable *breviary. [< OldFr. portehors < porte = carry + hors = outside] … Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
