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port-town|ˈpɔəttaʊn|
†1. A market-town or borough: = port n.2
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 307/267 He fierde ase doth a port⁓doggue I-norischet in port-toun.
2. A sea-port town: = port n.1 2.
1601Holland Pliny I. 100 Gaza a port towne and farther within, Anthedon, and the mountain Angoris. 1641Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Warres iii. 116 Harfleur was the chiefest Port Town of all Normandy. 1705Royal Proclam. 18 Jan. in Lond. Gaz. No. 4090/1 The Civil Magistrates at..Our Port-Towns. 1754Fielding Voy. Lisbon Wks. 1882 VII. 88 There are many of those houses in every port-town. |