noun
Word Origin mid 17th century: French, from porte ‘door’, from Latin porta ‘gate, door’.
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Hanging curtain placed over a door or over the doorless entrance to a room
A portière is a hanging curtain placed over a door or over the doorless entrance to a room. Its name is derived from the word for door in French: porte. Wikipedia