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What does Porte mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (now historical) The Ottoman court; (hence), the government of the Ottoman empire. [from 15th c.]
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He enjoyed unquestioned autonomy but remained, nevertheless, a subject of the Sublime Porte.
It's tempting to see the two-minute time penalty dished out to both Clarke and Porte as penalising sportsmanship.
A specialist in electronic processes, Jean-Marie de la Porte is the Safran group project leader for the Open 60 racing boat.
Little daunted, they got another firman in 1637, and since Venice, Austria and Poland were at war with the Porte, nothing was done.
The Porte Rivotte gate was then widened and a drawbridge installed between the two conical-roofed towers.
Hunt's acquisitive instincts far surpassed anything the Sublime Porte had in mind when it granted the firman.

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