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| He turned slowly back into the room, and limping rather more than was usual with him, he pushed aside a portiere and passed into a charmingly furnished country drawing-room. She noticed the movement of the other portiere and asked Newman who had been entertaining him. We were in Milverton's study, and a portiere at the farther side showed the entrance to his bedroom. |
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rius, from Latin porta, gate; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.]
portiere - a heavy curtain hung across a doorway