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Sublime Porte

NOUN
  1. the Ottoman court in Constantinople

How To Use Sublime Porte In A Sentence

  • Hunt's acquisitive instincts far surpassed anything the Sublime Porte had in mind when it granted the firman.
  • There they jumped into an araba with a kavass on the box, dashed down Pera Street, past the banking quarter, over the Galata bridge, up the Sublime Porte Road and into the Bayazid Square, where they reached their destination. Round the World in Seven Days
  • There they jumped into an araba with a kavass on the box, dashed down Pera Street, past the banking quarter, over the Galata bridge, up the Sublime Porte Road and into the Bayazid Square, where they reached their destination. Round the World in Seven Days
  • At this time, there was a serious diplomatic difficulty pending between the Czar (Nicholas I), and the Sultan (Abdul-Medjid), and in less than a month after my return to Constantinople, there was an open rupture between the cabinet at St. Petersburg, and the Sublime Porte, and preparations for active hostilities between the two powers were immediately commenced. The Autobiography of Nicholas Said; a Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa
  • The Christian sects began to squabble among themselves, which they continue to do to the present day, and in 1767 the Sublime Porte issued a firman dividing the church among the disputants. The City With the Big Ego
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