porteous

• portesse [16th-17th c.]
• porthors
• porthos
• portous

From Anglo-Norman porteose, portehos, Old French portehors, from porte + hors (“outside”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːtɪəs/

porteous (plural porteouses)

1. (historical) A portable breviary.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iv:

     And in his hand his Portesse still he bare, / That much was worne, but therein little red, / For of deuotion he had little care [...].

• outropes