Portiere

Definition: Portiere

Portiere

Noun

1. A heavy curtain hung across a doorway.

Date "portiere" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1877. (references)

Etymology: Portiere \Por`ti[`e]re""\, noun. [French expression, from porte gate, door. See Port gate.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Portiere

Non-English Usage: "Portiere" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (clerk, concierge, custodian, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeepers, goalie, goalkeeper, janitor, porter, receptionist).

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Il Portiere di notte (1974)

Ma il portiere non c'è mai? (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Portiere -- Dragon -- designed by Miss Ida F. Clarke. Credit: Library of Congress.		Room with painting of child, roses, and portiere. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Language		Translations for "portiere"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Farsi		پرده درب ورودی . (various references)

Manx		curtan dorrysh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ortierepay

Romanian		draperie (Arras, curtain, drapery, hanging, hangings). (various references)

Russian		портьера (drape). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "portiere": portieres. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Portiere" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Piratinera, portare, Porteverde, portfire, Portier, Portoverde, protype, Ptrtype. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-o-p-r-r-t"
	-1 letter: pierrot, preriot.
	-2 letters: perter, porter, pretor, protei, report, retire, retore, rioter, ropier.
	-3 letters: peter, prier, prior, repot, repro, retie, retro, riper, roper, topee, toper, trier, tripe, trope.
	-4 letters: peer, peri, pert, pier, poet, pore, port, pree, repo, rete, riot, ripe, rite, rope, rote, roti, tier, tire, tiro, tope, topi, tore, tori, torr, tree, trio.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-o-p-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: portieres, profiteer.
	+2 letters: interloper, interposer, profiteers, propertied, properties, reimported, repertoire, resorptive, spirometer, temporizer.
	+3 letters: depreciator, expropriate, imperforate, interceptor, interlopers, interposers, madreporite, misreported, overprinted, perestroika, polarimeter, prerogative, procreative, profiteered, profiterole, proliferate, proprieties, pyrometries, reciprocate, reexporting, reoperating, reoperation, repertoires, repertories, reprobative, spirometers, temporaries, temporizers.
	+4 letters: amperometric, arsenopyrite, corporeities, depreciators, depreciatory, electrophori, expropriated, expropriates, extemporizer, interceptors, intercompare, intercropped, interoceptor, madreporites, peremptorily, perestroikas, performative, perpetration, polarimeters, precentorial, preceptorial, preceptories, prehistories, premeditator, preoperative, preportioned, prerogatived, prerogatives, preservation, profiteering, profiteroles, proliferated, proliferates, proprietress, proselytizer, prosperities, protectories, pteridosperm, pyroelectric, reciprocated, reciprocates, recuperation, redemptioner, reoperations, repositories, reproductive, respirometer, respirometry, spirometries.
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