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portobello

1 American  
[pawr-tuh-bel-oh, pohr-] / ˌpɔr təˈbɛl oʊ, ˌpoʊr- /

noun

plural

portobellos
  1. portabella.


Portobello 2 American  
[pawr-toh-bel-oh, pohr-] / ˌpɔr toʊˈbɛl oʊ, ˌpoʊr- /

noun

  1. a small seaport on the Caribbean coast of Panama, NE of Colón: harbor discovered and named by Columbus 1502; a principal city of Spanish colonial America.


Example Sentences

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Students at Portobello High School and Queensferry High School were issued with special wallets which, once sealed, require a magnetic pad to unlock them.

From BBC

And at Portobello town hall Garbage's Shirley Manson will be among a series of literary guests in conversation at Muckle Be The Light.

From BBC

In 2018, Holly wrote in a blog that her mother was raised in the centre of Glasgow and worked in a pawnbroker's shop, and, later, at a London bric-a-brac store in Portobello Road in west London.

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On a recent Friday afternoon in London, Jarvis Cocker, 62, is musing over the suit he’s just picked up from the Portobello Road Market: “I’m quite pleased with it,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

Portobello Town Hall will also host acts for the first time, with a mini-festival to celebrate Palestinian art and culture, called Welcome to the Fringe, Palestine.

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