Porte

• Ottoman Porte
• Sublime Porte

From Middle French porte (“gate”), referring to the gate of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered, ultimately after Ottoman Turkish bāb-i ‘ālī (“high gate”).

Porte

1. (now historical) The Ottoman court; (hence), the government of the Ottoman empire. [from 15th c.]
   • 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 24:

     A hired diplomat in Edirne and to the Porte in Constantinople, a military commander in the Austro-Turkish wars, a polyhistor and a learned man.

   • 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin 2016, p. 19:

     The Ottoman defenders in Edirne (ancient Adrianople, a city in modern Turkey near Greece and Bulgaria) were left surrounded and under siege when the Porte sued for an armistice in early December 1912.

• -trope, Perot, Petro, opter, petro-, ptero-, repot, tepor, toper, trope

Porte

1. plural of Port (“harbor”)