Sublime Porte
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English
Alternative forms
- High Porte
- Ottoman Porte
- Porte (shortening)
Etymology
From French Sublime Porte (“high gate/portal”).
Proper noun
Sublime Porte
- (literally) The monumental portal at the Ottoman palace where the supreme tribunals were held; became the surname of the first palace in Bursa, transferred to the even grander Topkapı palace after the capital's transfer to Istanbul (the former Byzantine imperial capital Constantinople)
- (figuratively) A pars pro toto for the Ottoman sultanic court, hence for the imperial government, notably the vizierial divan and the entire empire, or a personage with a similar standing.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Matrimonial Tête-à-Tête”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 170:
- He liked the pleasures of the table, and he liked attendance; he was a sort of Sublime Porte to his valets.
Synonyms
- (pars pro toto) Istanbul
Translations
Ottoman imperial government
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See also
French
Etymology
Calque of Ottoman Turkish باب عالی (Babıali).
Proper noun
- the Sublime Porte, Ottoman sultanic palace, court, capital and empire
Descendants
- → English: Sublime Porte