Sublime Porte
词源链
- 英语English
Sublime Porte
词源说明
From French Sublime Porte (“high gate/portal”).
释义
专有名词proper noun
- 1literallyThe monumental portal at the Ottoman palace where the supreme tribunals were held; became the surname of the first palace in Bursa, transferred to the even grander Topkapı palace after the capital's transfer to Istanbul (the former Byzantine imperial capital Constantinople)
- 2figurativelyThe Ottoman sultanic court, hence the imperial