Portuguesen.adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɔːtʃᵿˈɡiːz/,

/ˌpɔːtjᵿˈɡiːz/, U.S.

/ˈpɔrtʃəˌɡiz/

Forms: 1500s Porteguses (plural, in sense A. 2), 1500s Portinguze, 1500s Portugese, 1500s–1700s Portuguise, 1600s Portagees, 1600s Porteguez, 1600s Porteguize, 1600s Portugese, 1600s Portugeses (plural), 1600s Portugize, 1600s Portugueeses (plural), 1600s Portugues, 1600s Portuguess, 1600s Portuguesses (plural), 1600s Portuguez, 1600s Portuguezes (plural), 1600s Portuguèze, 1600s Portuguize, 1600s Portuguze, 1600s–1800s Portugueze, 1600s– Portuguese, 1800s Portygeese, 1900s– Portugaese (nonstandard).

Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymons: Portuguese portugues, portuguez, portugeses, portugueeses.

Etymology: < Portuguese †portugues, †portuguez (adjective) of, relating to, or originating from Portugal, (noun) native or inhabitant of Portugal, Portuguese language (15th cent.; earlier as †portugaeses (plural) (13th cent.), †portugeese (14th cent.); also as †portugeses (plural), †portugueeses (plural) (both 15th cent.); now português ) < post-classical Latin Portugalensis (10th cent. in Portuguese sources, from late 12th cent. in British sources; also as Portigalensis , Portingalensis ), variant of Portucalensis < Portucale (see Portugal n.) + -ensis -ese suffix. Compare earlier Portugal n., Portugal adj., and later Portuguee n., Portuguee adj.Compare Middle French, French portugais (adjective) of, relating to, or originating from Portugal (1478 or earlier as †portuguèze , feminine singular), (noun) native or inhabitant of Portugal (c1490 or earlier as †portugoys , plural), Portuguese language (1553 as †portugués ); compare earlier Middle French portugalois (1384 as noun denoting a person from Portugal, beginning of the 15th cent. or earlier as adjective). Compare also Catalan portuguès (1490 or earlier as †portoguès ; compare earlier †portugalès (a1362 or earlier)), Spanish portugués (beginning of the 14th cent. or earlier as noun, mid 15th cent. or earlier as adjective; < Portuguese; compare earlier †portogalés (beginning of the 13th cent. or earlier), †portugalés (mid 13th cent. or earlier)), Italian portoghese (c1525). With the form Portinguze compare the α forms at Portugal n. and adj., and see discussion at that entry. With sense A. 2 compare post-classical Latin Portugalensis (a1542 in this sense), Middle French portugaloise (16th cent.), Middle French, French †portugaise (1585), French †portugalle (1611 in Cotgrave), Spanish †cruzado portugués (1589 or earlier, rare; the use as noun is apparently not paralleled in Spanish), and earlier portague n. N.E.D. (1907) gives only the pronunciation (pō^əɹtiŭgī·z) /pɔətjʊˈɡiːz/.

A. n.

1. A native or inhabitant of Portugal; a person of Portuguese descent.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Portugal > [noun]

Portingaler1436

Portugala1497

Portuguese1552

Portugallian1601

Lusitanian1607

Lusian1812

Portuguee1830

1552 King Edward VI Chron. & Polit. Papers (1966) (modernized text) 169 The Italians, Genoese, Portuguese, and Spaniards.

1574 Sir P. Sidney Let. 17 Dec. in Wks. (1923) III. 101 They haue been provoked by the Portugese.

1622 T. Robinson Anat. Eng. Nunnery 27 Diuers Portugeses our neighbours.

1694 W. Wotton Anc. & Mod. Learning (1697) 269 The Portuguezes, who first made daring Voyages, by the Help of the Compass, into the Southern and South-Eastern Seas.

a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) iii. 172 The affairs of the Portuguese in India were more than ever neglected by the government at home.

1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 569 The Portuguese are now the fighting cocks of the army.

1835 J. E. Alexander Sketches in Portugal i. 16 I saw only one countryman, a cut-throat looking fellow.., chained to a Portuguese, and carrying sand for paviers.

a1889 M. Wood Pidge (MS) 30 Now, she tells me that gal Pidgeon was stolen from home when she was five years old by an old Portygeese.

1939 Ann. Reg. 1938 266 The Portuguese are rapidly becoming a military-minded people.

1969 M. Alpert tr. F. de Quevedo Swindler in Two Spanish Picaresque Novels 178 They earned their living from letting furnished rooms to three lodgers: me, a Portuguese and a Catalan.

2003 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 18 Aug. I have a friend who is married to a Portuguese.

†2. A Portuguese gold coin current in the 16th cent.; a cruzado; = portague n. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Portuguese coins

portague1532

crusado1544

Portugal1546

Portuguese1577

patacon1584

vintem1584

milreis1589

pataca1625

moidore1710

octave1747

Johannes1758

joe1765

half joe1775

escudo1821

centavo1857

1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 102/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Storing him..with seuen score Porteguses.

?1607 J. Donne Let. in Poems (1633) 360 He may cast up a greater summe who hath but forty small moneyes, then hee with twenty Portuguesses.

a1668 W. Davenant News from Plimouth i. i, in Wks. (1673) 2/2 Each with a bag of Porteguez under His left arme.

3. The Romance language of Portugal and its territories, and of Brazil.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Portuguese

Portugal1588

Portuguese1599

1599 W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Principal Navigations (ed. 2) II. ii. 31 He could speake a litle Portuguise, and was perfect in weights and measures.

1615 T. Roe Jrnl. 21 July in Embassy to Great Mogul (1899) I. 19 The Enterpreters were certaine Magadoxians, that spake Arabique and broken Portuguese.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures v. 12 A Breichman that spake very good Portugueze.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 36 They ask'd me what I was, in Portuguese, and in Spanish, and in French, but I understood none of them.

c1794 J. Dale Narr. Loss Winterton 38 In our run for Sofala, we put into two rivers, in both of which we imagined it to lay; in the last, meeting some inhabitants who spoke some Portuguese, they advised us to apprise the Governor of our wish to reach the place.

1840 H. Malcom Trav. 35/1 These are adopted by one from the English, another from the Arabic, another from the Greek, and another from the Portuguese.

1882 W. W. Skeat Etymol. Dict. p. xviii The other Romance languages..are Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Provençal, Romansch, and Wallachian.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xxvi. 474 The descendants of runaway slaves who settled on the island of San Thomé off the coast of West Africa, spoke a creolized Portuguese.

1980 G. Greene Dr. Fischer viii. 47 Two letters in Portuguese were sent me to translate, although I knew no Portuguese.

†4. Perhaps: a kind of snuff. Obsolete.

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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun] > types of

high-dried1681

Spanish1681

roderigo1692

bergamot1701

musty1709

myrtle1715

Portuguesea1721

rappee?1726

Scotch1739

macoubac1740

blackguard1782

Irish1806

Lundyfoot1811

prince's mixture1813

cephalic1828

taddy1869

a1721 M. Prior Misc. Wks. (1740) II. 33 After some thought, some Portugueze, Some wine.

B. adj.

Of or relating to Portugal, its language, or its people. Also: spec. of or relating to Sephardic Jews whose ancestors came from Portugal (cf. Spanish adj. 1b).

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Portugal > [adjective]

Portugal1498

Portuguese1605

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Iberian peninsula and islands > [adjective] > Portugal

Portugal1498

Lusitan1587

Portuguese1605

Lusitanian1720

Lusian1776

Portuguee1834

society > faith > sect > Judaism > Jewish sects > [adjective] > Sephardi

Portuguese1605

Spanish1817

Sephardic1866

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 148 The Tirian Marchant or the Portuguez Can hardly build one Ship of many Trees.

1662 J. Howell (title) A New English Grammar..With som special remarks upon the Portugues Dialect,..For the service of Her Majesty.

1698 Protestant Mercury 16 Mar. 248 1/2 The Portuguese Ambassador..is expected here tomorrow.

1715 Boston News-let. 29 Aug. 2/2 Ran-away..from his Master Jonathan Studley, on Saturday the 27th of August past a Portuguise Molatto Servant Man, aged about 22 Years.

a1798 T. Pennant Tour on Continent (1948) 152 West into the Synagogue of the Portuguese Jews.

1828 C. McIntosh Pract. Gardener I. 67 A Portuguese settlement on the coast of Africa.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 125/2 The Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of Jews, who are also called Sephardin.

1902 G. E. Mitton Hampstead & Marylebone 80 In Bryanston Street there is a synagogue which was built for the Spanish and Portuguese Jews.

1994 D. Porter Frommer's Comprehensive Trav. Guide Portugal '94–'95 xvi. 346 After the waiter seats you on one of the scallop-backed Portuguese chairs, you order some of the best fresh fish and shellfish served in Madeira.

Compounds

In the names of things originating in or associated with Portugal.

Portuguese cut n. a variety of the brilliant cut used for gemstones, characterized by many small triangular and rhomboidal facets and an almost circular table.

ΚΠ

1889 Cent. Dict. at Brilliant In fig. 6, a, b, and c show top, side, and back views of the Portuguese cut, which has two rows of rhomboidal and three rows of triangular facets above and below the girdle.

1929 W. F. Foshag in G. P. Merrill Minerals from Earth & Sky ii. vii. 311 The figure shows the top, side, and bottom views of the Portuguese cut.

2002 Re: making profit with faceting? in rec.crafts.jewelry (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Dec. Specialize in barion cuts or something like a Portuguese cut and discerning customers will see the difference.

Portuguese knot n. any of various types of knot (see quots.).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors > specific

bowline-knot1627

clinch1627

sheepshank1627

wall-knot1627

running bowline1710

running bowline knot1726

bend1769

clove-hitch1769

half-hitch1769

hitch1769

walnut1769

cat's paw1794

midshipman's hitch1794

reef knot1794

clench1804

French shroud knot1808

carrick bend1819

bowline1823

slippery hitch1832

wall1834

Matthew Walker1841

shroud-knot1860

stopper-knotc1860

marling hitch1867

wind-knot1870

Portuguese knot1871

rosette1875

chain knota1877

stopper-hitch1876

swab-hitch1883

monkey fist1917

Spanish bowline1968

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > any knot used by sailors > other specific sailors' knots

bowline-knot1627

clinch1627

sheepshank1627

wall-knot1627

running bowline1710

running bowline knot1726

bend1769

clove-hitch1769

half-hitch1769

hitch1769

walnut1769

Magnus hitch1794

midshipman's hitch1794

clench1804

French shroud knot1808

carrick bend1819

bowline1823

slippery hitch1832

wall1834

cat's paw1840

Matthew Walker1841

shroud-knot1860

stopper-knotc1860

Portuguese knot1871

chain knota1877

stopper-hitch1876

swab-hitch1883

Spanish bowline1968

1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. May 299 A similar band is known as the Portuguese Knot used as a lashing for sheave legs.

1898 Living Age 24 Sept. 846/2 Miss Berthon, who wore her hair tied in a Portuguese knot, and was a pretty girl four years ago, is now the beauty of Lisbon.

1973 E. Wilson Embroidery Bk. (1975) i. 37 (heading) Portuguese Knot.

Portuguese oyster n. a large edible oyster, Crassostrea angulata (now thought to be a variety of the Pacific oyster, C. gigas), which has a thick, white to pale brown shell with an irregular pattern of ridges and grooves, and was introduced to cultivation in Europe via Portugal.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > oyster

oystereOE

Colchesterc1625

green oyster1667

mangrove oyster1683

pandore1701

Milton1749

sickle-oyster1758

bluepoint1789

native1815

powldoody1819

Red Bank oyster1830

raccoon oyster1834

sauce oyster1851

Portuguese oyster1881

relay1889

Portugal oyster1890

Malpeque1901

Marennes1905

Belon1908

Olympia oyster1908

Pacific oyster1912

Whitstable1940

Portugaise1942

Olympia1961

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > crassostrea angulata

Portuguese oyster1881

Portugal oyster1890

Portugaise1942

1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 707 The reporter..saw shells of a species of oyster in the collections which was referred to as the ‘Portuguese’ oyster, and which he could not distinguish from the shells of O. virginiana.

1928 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas xiv. 301 Of recent years it [sc. the French oyster] has been almost completely ousted in the more southern beds by the Portuguese oyster.

1988 K. Amis Difficulties with Girls i. 7 He had suddenly realised just what must have been wrong with those Portuguese oysters he had eaten for lunch.

Portuguese parliament n. Nautical slang a rowdy discussion in which many people speak simultaneously.

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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > in which many speak simultaneously

buzz1628

jangle1839

Portuguese parliament1897

1897 ‘F. B. Williams’ On Many Seas 388 Of all the jabbering and wrangling and shouting to one another that I ever heard, that was the worst. It was like what sailors call a Portuguese Parliament.

1898 H. E. A. Coate Realities of Sea Life 133 They [sc. wild monkeys] could only be compared with the ‘members of a Portuguese Parliament’, where, according to Jack's idea, they are ‘all talkers and no listeners’.

1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 90/2 Portuguese parliament, rowdy discussion in which everybody talks and nobody listens.

Portuguese trade wind n. a north-east wind felt along the Portuguese coast.

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1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Portuguese a. Portuguese trade-wind, A northeast wind similar to the trade-wind, felt along the coast of Portugal.

1994 Cruising World (Nexis) June 56 They sail down along the African coast in the Portuguese trade winds to the Canary Islands.

Portuguese water dog n. a breed of medium-sized water dog developed in Portugal, having a curly or wavy waterproof coat, long tail, and webbed toes; a dog of this breed.

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1939 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 30 Sept. 4/2 This story tells about the Portuguese water dog.

1955 Country Life 8 Dec. 1369 (caption) Portuguese water dogs were originally used by Portuguese sailors for swimming with messages or rescuing gear from the sea.

2013 Radio Times 30 Nov. (South/West ed.) 150/1 Tonight we hear from Bo, President Obama's Portuguese water dog, a breed of whom few previously had heard.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	portuguese
释义	Portuguesen.adj. Brit. /ˌpɔːtʃᵿˈɡiːz/, /ˌpɔːtjᵿˈɡiːz/, U.S. /ˈpɔrtʃəˌɡiz/ Forms: 1500s Porteguses (plural, in sense A. 2), 1500s Portinguze, 1500s Portugese, 1500s–1700s Portuguise, 1600s Portagees, 1600s Porteguez, 1600s Porteguize, 1600s Portugese, 1600s Portugeses (plural), 1600s Portugize, 1600s Portugueeses (plural), 1600s Portugues, 1600s Portuguess, 1600s Portuguesses (plural), 1600s Portuguez, 1600s Portuguezes (plural), 1600s Portuguèze, 1600s Portuguize, 1600s Portuguze, 1600s–1800s Portugueze, 1600s– Portuguese, 1800s Portygeese, 1900s– Portugaese (nonstandard). Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymons: Portuguese portugues, portuguez, portugeses, portugueeses. Etymology: < Portuguese †portugues, †portuguez (adjective) of, relating to, or originating from Portugal, (noun) native or inhabitant of Portugal, Portuguese language (15th cent.; earlier as †portugaeses (plural) (13th cent.), †portugeese (14th cent.); also as †portugeses (plural), †portugueeses (plural) (both 15th cent.); now português ) < post-classical Latin Portugalensis (10th cent. in Portuguese sources, from late 12th cent. in British sources; also as Portigalensis , Portingalensis ), variant of Portucalensis < Portucale (see Portugal n.) + -ensis -ese suffix. Compare earlier Portugal n., Portugal adj., and later Portuguee n., Portuguee adj.Compare Middle French, French portugais (adjective) of, relating to, or originating from Portugal (1478 or earlier as †portuguèze , feminine singular), (noun) native or inhabitant of Portugal (c1490 or earlier as †portugoys , plural), Portuguese language (1553 as †portugués ); compare earlier Middle French portugalois (1384 as noun denoting a person from Portugal, beginning of the 15th cent. or earlier as adjective). Compare also Catalan portuguès (1490 or earlier as †portoguès ; compare earlier †portugalès (a1362 or earlier)), Spanish portugués (beginning of the 14th cent. or earlier as noun, mid 15th cent. or earlier as adjective; < Portuguese; compare earlier †portogalés (beginning of the 13th cent. or earlier), †portugalés (mid 13th cent. or earlier)), Italian portoghese (c1525). With the form Portinguze compare the α forms at Portugal n. and adj., and see discussion at that entry. With sense A. 2 compare post-classical Latin Portugalensis (a1542 in this sense), Middle French portugaloise (16th cent.), Middle French, French †portugaise (1585), French †portugalle (1611 in Cotgrave), Spanish †cruzado portugués (1589 or earlier, rare; the use as noun is apparently not paralleled in Spanish), and earlier portague n. N.E.D. (1907) gives only the pronunciation (pō^əɹtiŭgī·z) /pɔətjʊˈɡiːz/. A. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Portugal; a person of Portuguese descent. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Portugal > [noun] Portingaler1436 Portugala1497 Portuguese1552 Portugallian1601 Lusitanian1607 Lusian1812 Portuguee1830 1552 King Edward VI Chron. & Polit. Papers (1966) (modernized text) 169 The Italians, Genoese, Portuguese, and Spaniards. 1574 Sir P. Sidney Let. 17 Dec. in Wks. (1923) III. 101 They haue been provoked by the Portugese. 1622 T. Robinson Anat. Eng. Nunnery 27 Diuers Portugeses our neighbours. 1694 W. Wotton Anc. & Mod. Learning (1697) 269 The Portuguezes, who first made daring Voyages, by the Help of the Compass, into the Southern and South-Eastern Seas. a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) iii. 172 The affairs of the Portuguese in India were more than ever neglected by the government at home. 1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 569 The Portuguese are now the fighting cocks of the army. 1835 J. E. Alexander Sketches in Portugal i. 16 I saw only one countryman, a cut-throat looking fellow.., chained to a Portuguese, and carrying sand for paviers. a1889 M. Wood Pidge (MS) 30 Now, she tells me that gal Pidgeon was stolen from home when she was five years old by an old Portygeese. 1939 Ann. Reg. 1938 266 The Portuguese are rapidly becoming a military-minded people. 1969 M. Alpert tr. F. de Quevedo Swindler in Two Spanish Picaresque Novels 178 They earned their living from letting furnished rooms to three lodgers: me, a Portuguese and a Catalan. 2003 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 18 Aug. I have a friend who is married to a Portuguese. †2. A Portuguese gold coin current in the 16th cent.; a cruzado; = portague n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Portuguese coins portague1532 crusado1544 Portugal1546 Portuguese1577 patacon1584 vintem1584 milreis1589 pataca1625 moidore1710 octave1747 Johannes1758 joe1765 half joe1775 escudo1821 centavo1857 1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 102/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I Storing him..with seuen score Porteguses. ?1607 J. Donne Let. in Poems (1633) 360 He may cast up a greater summe who hath but forty small moneyes, then hee with twenty Portuguesses. a1668 W. Davenant News from Plimouth i. i, in Wks. (1673) 2/2 Each with a bag of Porteguez under His left arme. 3. The Romance language of Portugal and its territories, and of Brazil. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Portuguese Portugal1588 Portuguese1599 1599 W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Principal Navigations (ed. 2) II. ii. 31 He could speake a litle Portuguise, and was perfect in weights and measures. 1615 T. Roe Jrnl. 21 July in Embassy to Great Mogul (1899) I. 19 The Enterpreters were certaine Magadoxians, that spake Arabique and broken Portuguese. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures v. 12 A Breichman that spake very good Portugueze. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 36 They ask'd me what I was, in Portuguese, and in Spanish, and in French, but I understood none of them. c1794 J. Dale Narr. Loss Winterton 38 In our run for Sofala, we put into two rivers, in both of which we imagined it to lay; in the last, meeting some inhabitants who spoke some Portuguese, they advised us to apprise the Governor of our wish to reach the place. 1840 H. Malcom Trav. 35/1 These are adopted by one from the English, another from the Arabic, another from the Greek, and another from the Portuguese. 1882 W. W. Skeat Etymol. Dict. p. xviii The other Romance languages..are Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Provençal, Romansch, and Wallachian. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xxvi. 474 The descendants of runaway slaves who settled on the island of San Thomé off the coast of West Africa, spoke a creolized Portuguese. 1980 G. Greene Dr. Fischer viii. 47 Two letters in Portuguese were sent me to translate, although I knew no Portuguese. †4. Perhaps: a kind of snuff. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > snuff > [noun] > types of high-dried1681 Spanish1681 roderigo1692 bergamot1701 musty1709 myrtle1715 Portuguesea1721 rappee?1726 Scotch1739 macoubac1740 blackguard1782 Irish1806 Lundyfoot1811 prince's mixture1813 cephalic1828 taddy1869 a1721 M. Prior Misc. Wks. (1740) II. 33 After some thought, some Portugueze, Some wine. B. adj. Of or relating to Portugal, its language, or its people. Also: spec. of or relating to Sephardic Jews whose ancestors came from Portugal (cf. Spanish adj. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Portugal > [adjective] Portugal1498 Portuguese1605 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Iberian peninsula and islands > [adjective] > Portugal Portugal1498 Lusitan1587 Portuguese1605 Lusitanian1720 Lusian1776 Portuguee1834 society > faith > sect > Judaism > Jewish sects > [adjective] > Sephardi Portuguese1605 Spanish1817 Sephardic1866 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 148 The Tirian Marchant or the Portuguez Can hardly build one Ship of many Trees. 1662 J. Howell (title) A New English Grammar..With som special remarks upon the Portugues Dialect,..For the service of Her Majesty. 1698 Protestant Mercury 16 Mar. 248 1/2 The Portuguese Ambassador..is expected here tomorrow. 1715 Boston News-let. 29 Aug. 2/2 Ran-away..from his Master Jonathan Studley, on Saturday the 27th of August past a Portuguise Molatto Servant Man, aged about 22 Years. a1798 T. Pennant Tour on Continent (1948) 152 West into the Synagogue of the Portuguese Jews. 1828 C. McIntosh Pract. Gardener I. 67 A Portuguese settlement on the coast of Africa. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 125/2 The Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of Jews, who are also called Sephardin. 1902 G. E. Mitton Hampstead & Marylebone 80 In Bryanston Street there is a synagogue which was built for the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. 1994 D. Porter Frommer's Comprehensive Trav. Guide Portugal '94–'95 xvi. 346 After the waiter seats you on one of the scallop-backed Portuguese chairs, you order some of the best fresh fish and shellfish served in Madeira. Compounds In the names of things originating in or associated with Portugal. Portuguese cut n. a variety of the brilliant cut used for gemstones, characterized by many small triangular and rhomboidal facets and an almost circular table. ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Dict. at Brilliant In fig. 6, a, b, and c show top, side, and back views of the Portuguese cut, which has two rows of rhomboidal and three rows of triangular facets above and below the girdle. 1929 W. F. Foshag in G. P. Merrill Minerals from Earth & Sky ii. vii. 311 The figure shows the top, side, and bottom views of the Portuguese cut. 2002 Re: making profit with faceting? in rec.crafts.jewelry (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Dec. Specialize in barion cuts or something like a Portuguese cut and discerning customers will see the difference. Portuguese knot n. any of various types of knot (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > knot used by sailors > specific bowline-knot1627 clinch1627 sheepshank1627 wall-knot1627 running bowline1710 running bowline knot1726 bend1769 clove-hitch1769 half-hitch1769 hitch1769 walnut1769 cat's paw1794 midshipman's hitch1794 reef knot1794 clench1804 French shroud knot1808 carrick bend1819 bowline1823 slippery hitch1832 wall1834 Matthew Walker1841 shroud-knot1860 stopper-knotc1860 marling hitch1867 wind-knot1870 Portuguese knot1871 rosette1875 chain knota1877 stopper-hitch1876 swab-hitch1883 monkey fist1917 Spanish bowline1968 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > knot > any knot used by sailors > other specific sailors' knots bowline-knot1627 clinch1627 sheepshank1627 wall-knot1627 running bowline1710 running bowline knot1726 bend1769 clove-hitch1769 half-hitch1769 hitch1769 walnut1769 Magnus hitch1794 midshipman's hitch1794 clench1804 French shroud knot1808 carrick bend1819 bowline1823 slippery hitch1832 wall1834 cat's paw1840 Matthew Walker1841 shroud-knot1860 stopper-knotc1860 Portuguese knot1871 chain knota1877 stopper-hitch1876 swab-hitch1883 Spanish bowline1968 1871 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. May 299 A similar band is known as the Portuguese Knot used as a lashing for sheave legs. 1898 Living Age 24 Sept. 846/2 Miss Berthon, who wore her hair tied in a Portuguese knot, and was a pretty girl four years ago, is now the beauty of Lisbon. 1973 E. Wilson Embroidery Bk. (1975) i. 37 (heading) Portuguese Knot. Portuguese oyster n. a large edible oyster, Crassostrea angulata (now thought to be a variety of the Pacific oyster, C. gigas), which has a thick, white to pale brown shell with an irregular pattern of ridges and grooves, and was introduced to cultivation in Europe via Portugal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > oyster oystereOE Colchesterc1625 green oyster1667 mangrove oyster1683 pandore1701 Milton1749 sickle-oyster1758 bluepoint1789 native1815 powldoody1819 Red Bank oyster1830 raccoon oyster1834 sauce oyster1851 Portuguese oyster1881 relay1889 Portugal oyster1890 Malpeque1901 Marennes1905 Belon1908 Olympia oyster1908 Pacific oyster1912 Whitstable1940 Portugaise1942 Olympia1961 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > crassostrea angulata Portuguese oyster1881 Portugal oyster1890 Portugaise1942 1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 707 The reporter..saw shells of a species of oyster in the collections which was referred to as the ‘Portuguese’ oyster, and which he could not distinguish from the shells of O. virginiana. 1928 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas xiv. 301 Of recent years it [sc. the French oyster] has been almost completely ousted in the more southern beds by the Portuguese oyster. 1988 K. Amis Difficulties with Girls i. 7 He had suddenly realised just what must have been wrong with those Portuguese oysters he had eaten for lunch. Portuguese parliament n. Nautical slang a rowdy discussion in which many people speak simultaneously. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > in which many speak simultaneously buzz1628 jangle1839 Portuguese parliament1897 1897 ‘F. B. Williams’ On Many Seas 388 Of all the jabbering and wrangling and shouting to one another that I ever heard, that was the worst. It was like what sailors call a Portuguese Parliament. 1898 H. E. A. Coate Realities of Sea Life 133 They [sc. wild monkeys] could only be compared with the ‘members of a Portuguese Parliament’, where, according to Jack's idea, they are ‘all talkers and no listeners’. 1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 90/2 Portuguese parliament, rowdy discussion in which everybody talks and nobody listens. Portuguese trade wind n. a north-east wind felt along the Portuguese coast. ΚΠ 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Portuguese a. Portuguese trade-wind, A northeast wind similar to the trade-wind, felt along the coast of Portugal. 1994 Cruising World (Nexis) June 56 They sail down along the African coast in the Portuguese trade winds to the Canary Islands. Portuguese water dog n. a breed of medium-sized water dog developed in Portugal, having a curly or wavy waterproof coat, long tail, and webbed toes; a dog of this breed. ΚΠ 1939 Emporia (Kansas) Gaz. 30 Sept. 4/2 This story tells about the Portuguese water dog. 1955 Country Life 8 Dec. 1369 (caption) Portuguese water dogs were originally used by Portuguese sailors for swimming with messages or rescuing gear from the sea. 2013 Radio Times 30 Nov. (South/West ed.) 150/1 Tonight we hear from Bo, President Obama's Portuguese water dog, a breed of whom few previously had heard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † Portuguesev. Forms: 1600s Portugueze. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Portuguese n. Etymology: < Portuguese n. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To make Portuguese; to assimilate to the Portuguese. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of Portugal > [verb (transitive)] Portuguese1698 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 157 The Mass of the People are..Portuguezed in Speech and Manners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.adj.1552v.1698
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