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Wine merchants say the port of 1820 is the true “Sublime Port.” Of course, the play is on the Porta Sublīma or Ottoman empire.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.