PORTAIL

, in Architecture, the face or frontispiece of a church, viewed on the side in which the great door is placed. It means also the great door or gate itself of a palace, castle, &c.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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PONTON
PORES
PORIME
PORISM
PORTA (John Baptista)
* PORTAIL
PORTAL
PORTCULLICE
PORTICO
POSITION
POSTERN