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Sublime porte

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    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) literally
  2. 2
    The Ottoman sultanic court, hence the imperial government, notably the vizierial divan and the entire empire, or a personage with a similar standing. figuratively

    "He liked the pleasures of the table, and he liked attendance; he was a sort of Sublime Porte to his valets."

Noun
  1. 1
    the Ottoman court in Constantinople wordnet

Etymology

From French Sublime Porte (“high gate/portal”).

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