portance

French - English

Definition of portance in French English dictionary: {n} capacity (Physics); bearing; lift, height to which something is raised

English - English

Definition of portance in English English dictionary: 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