portance

Französisch - Englisch

Definition von portance im Französisch Englisch wörterbuch

{n} capacity (Physics); bearing; lift, height to which something is raised

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von portance im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

The manner in which one carries oneself; personal carriage; bearing; deportment; mien

for in court gay portaunce he perceiu'd, / And gallant shew to be in greatest gree .

{n} port, carriage, behavior

See Port, carriage, demeanor

A pig; a porket

The quality or state of

A young hog; a pig

Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing

A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution

The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies

Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood

Lascivious; licentious

Synonyme

port

Etymologie

() Middle French portance (“a carrying, support”), from porter (“to carry”) Latin portare (“carry, bear, convey”).