The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . 1. A dooror gate; an entrance or opening for passage;. nt of Peterborough Cathedral, England. Specifically, the entire architectural treatmentof the entrance and its surroundings of a greator splendid building, as a cathedral. The portail postes and threshold vp are throwen anddoores of halles. Phaer, .^neid, ii. King Richard doth himself appear,As doth the blushing discontented sunFrom out the heiy portal of the east. Shak., Rich. II., iii. 3. lips th
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . 1. A dooror gate; an entrance or opening for passage;. nt of Peterborough Cathedral, England. Specifically, the entire architectural treatmentof the entrance and its surroundings of a greator splendid building, as a cathedral. The portail postes and threshold vp are throwen anddoores of halles. Phaer, .^neid, ii. King Richard doth himself appear,As doth the blushing discontented sunFrom out the heiy portal of the east. Shak., Rich. II., iii. 3. lips that open to this fruits tipoHalTo let in death, and make immortal mortal. Quarles, Emblems, i. . gazed throngh the dusty side-lights of the por-tal at the young, blooming, and very cheerful face whichpresented itself for admittance into the gloomy old man-sion. Hawthorne, 8even Gables, the ground-story of the central compartment [of atransept] there is a great por/«/, while the aisle ends usu-ally have windows instead of doors. C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 102. 2f. A square corner of a room separated fromthe rest by a wainscot, and forming a short pas-sage or ve
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