Portuary

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Noun
  1. 1
    A portable breviary; a porteous. obsolete

    "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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porteousportiforium

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"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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