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† portoir Obs. rare.
[a. F. portoir (16th c. in Godef.), le portoir des vignes, ‘the braunch that beares the grapes’.]
A bearing branch (of a vine).
1601Holland Pliny xvii. xxi. 527 Braunches..which were portoirs and bare grapes the yeare before. Ibid. xviii. xxxi. 605 The..greene braunches called the Portoirs. |