Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

portuary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: por-tu-ary
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A portable breviary; a porteous.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"The Queen's private devotions […] which she performed after the custom of her Religion out of her own portuary, with her beads and crucifix, sometimes in the Latin, and sometimes in the English tongue."

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

portuaries (plural)

Questions

What does portuary mean?: A portable breviary; a porteous.

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