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Old Portuguese

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noun

  1. the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.

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Old Portuguese, Diez mentions senhor rainha, mia sennor formosa, my beautiful mistress.211.Marsh, p.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

Old Portuguese men and Brazilian women seemed very much affected— sobbing, beating their breasts, and telling their beads.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter

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