porte couleice

Old French

Etymology

From porte (“door”) + couleice (“sliding; able to slide”).

Noun

porte couleice f (oblique plural portes couleices, nominative singular porte couleice, nominative plural portes couleices)

portcullis

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (couleis)

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