portsale

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English

Etymology

From port +‎ sale. See port (gate).

Noun

portsale (plural portsales)

  1. (obsolete) public or open sale; auction
    • 1659, T Livius [i.e., Livy], “”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie , London: W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, , →OCLC:
      Five thousand sixe hundred and two and thirtie persons were sold out-right in port-sale under the guirland

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