portuary

English

Noun

portuary (plural portuaries)

  1. (obsolete) A portable breviary; a porteous.
    • 1823, John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth:
      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.

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