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Oporto

noun
1.
Port city in northwest Portugal; noted for port wine.  Synonym: Porto.





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"Oporto" Quotes from Famous Books



... viz., 'now retired into harbour, after the tempests that had long agitated his society.' So Scriblerus. But the learned Scipio Maffei understands it of a certain wine called port, from Oporto a city of Portugal, of which this professor invited him to drink abundantly. Scip. ...
— Poetical Works of Pope, Vol. II • Alexander Pope
... sampling his '18 Oporto, with the daily paper at his elbow, he actually felt some amount of regret that he had entered the course for such distinctions—which, by the way, his modesty forbade him publishing to the world at large. Only a select few knew the ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various


Words linked to "Oporto" :   port, urban center, Portuguese Republic, Porto, city, Portugal, metropolis


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