"portass" meaning in English

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          "text": "an old Priest in that age, which always read in his Portass, Mumpsimus Domine for Sumpsimus; whereof when he was admonished, he said that he now had used Mumpsimus thirty years, and would not leave his old Mumpsimus for their new Sumpsimus.",
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          "ref": "1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches:",
          "text": "Their portases, bedes, temples, aultars.",
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          "ref": "1553, [unknown translator], Stephen Gardiner, De vera obedientia:",
          "text": "Boner hath set up again in Paules Salesburi Latin portace.",
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          "text": "Let me see your portous, gentle sir John.",
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "In his hand his portesse still he bare, That much was worn, but therein little red; For of devotion he had little care.",
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        "A breviary; a prayer book."
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        "(obsolete, Early Modern) A breviary; a prayer book."
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          "word": "portess"
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