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  • noun obsolete A Portuguese person.

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Examples

  • Sandwich's having made a peace between Spain and Portugall, which is mighty great news, and, above all, to my Lord's honour, more than any thing he ever did; and yet I do fear it will not prevail to secure him in Parliament against incivilities there.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • But, blessed be God! all the Court is full of the good news of my Lord Sandwich's having made a peace between Spain and Portugall, which is mighty great news, and, above all, to my Lord's honour, more than any thing he ever did; and yet I do fear it will not prevail to secure him in Parliament against incivilities there.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys, February 1667/68 Pepys, Samuel 1668

  • Spain and Portugall, which is mighty great news, and, above all, to my

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 62: February 1667-68 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • At last the Councell risen, and Sir G. Carteret telling me what the Councell hath ordered about the ships designed to carry horse from Ireland to Portugall, which is now altered.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 16: May/June 1662 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Sandwich's having made a peace between Spain and Portugall, which is mighty great news, and, above all, to my Lord's honour, more than any thing he ever did; and yet I do fear it will not prevail to secure him in Parliament against incivilities there.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • At last the Councell risen, and Sir G. Carteret telling me what the Councell hath ordered about the ships designed to carry horse from Ireland to Portugall, which is now altered.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1662 Pepys, Samuel 1662

  • And in the end they had a prayer for the King, which they pronounced his name in Portugall; but the prayer, like the rest, in Hebrew.

    October 15th, 2006 2006

  • The Winter in those parts of the Indies beginneth the fifteenth of May, and lasteth vnto the end of October: and as we were in Ancola, there came another Marchant of horses in a palanchine, and two Portugall souldiers which came from Zeilan, and two cariers of letters, which were Christians borne in the Indies; all these consorted to goe to

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The same night two Portugall galeons of the burthen of seuen or eight hundreth tunnes a piece, to wit the Saint

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • And they come for the most part in September, and remaine there fortie or fiftie dayes; and then goe to Cochin, where they lade their Pepper for Portugall.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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