Meaning of ante-port | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“There is but one, avenue to the Caſtle, and that not imbelliſhed as of old with the famous Ante-Port called Propylæa, whoſe magnificent ſtructure coſt as many Talents as amounts of our money to Two Millions and ſix hundred Livers, which went very high in an age when the Salary of one of their Soveraign Judges was but 4 d. per diem.”

“The highest idea of society, said Mr. [M. D.] Gage, is founded upon our conception of Heaven. Earth is the ante-port of Heaven, and, by the law, man is made a little lower than the angels.”

“Some idea of the Palazzo Vecchio, with its ante-port, may be obtained from a curious old fresco which still exists, though in a damaged condition, on the wall of the staircase of the old Debtor’s Prison, the “Stinche.””

“Before the entrance to this Narthex hung a rich embroidered ante-port given by Andronicus-Palaeologus, and showing his monograms.”

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