port-town
(ˈpɔəttaʊn)
† 1. A market-town or borough: = port n.2
| c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 307/267 He fierde ase doth a port⁓doggue I-norischet in port-toun. |
2. A sea-port town: = port n.1 2.
| 1601 Holland Pliny I. 100 Gaza a port towne and farther within, Anthedon, and the mountain Angoris. 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Warres iii. 116 Harfleur was the chiefest Port Town of all Normandy. 1705 Royal Proclam. 18 Jan. in Lond. Gaz. No. 4090/1 The Civil Magistrates at..Our Port-Towns. 1754 Fielding Voy. Lisbon Wks. 1882 VII. 88 There are many of those houses in every port-town. |