porte

‖n. [ F. See Port a gate, and Coach. ] (Arch.) A large doorway allowing vehicles to drive into or through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte-cochère. Also, a porch over a driveway before an entrance door. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having gates. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

We took the sevenfold-ported Thebes. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Portague. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. porter to carry + monnaie money. ] A small pocketbook or wallet for carrying money. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Portended; p. pr. & vb. n. Portending. ] [ L. portendre, portentum, to foretell, to predict, to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to stretch. See Position, Tend. ] 1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stretch out before. [ R. ] “Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur; presage; foreshadow; threaten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of foreshowing; foreboding. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. portentum. See Portend. ] That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

My loss by dire portents the god foretold. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Presaging; foreshadowing. [ 1913 Webster ]