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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 118 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PORTIERE , a See also:

HANGING

hanging placed over a See also:

DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door, as its See also:

French name implies, or over the doorless entrance to a See also:

ROOM

room. From the See also:

East, where doors are still rare, it came to See also:

EUROPE

Europe at a remote date—it is known to have been in use in the See also:

West in the '4th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, and was probably introduced much earlier. Like so many other domestic plenishings, it reached See also:

England by way of See also:

France, where it appears to have been originally called rideau de See also:

PORTE, THE SUBLIME (Arab. babi-'ali, the high gate, through the French translation la sublime porte)

Porte. It is still extensively used either as an See also:

ORNAMENT (Lat. ornare, to adorn)

ornament or as a means of mitigating See also:

DRAUGHTS (from AS. dragan, to draw)

draughts. It is usually of some heavy material, such as See also:

VELVET

velvet, See also:

BROCADE

brocade, or See also:

PLUSH (Fr. peluche)

plush, and is often fixed upon a See also:

brass See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm, moving in a socket with the opening and closing of the door.

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