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portcullis/pɔ:tˈkʌlis/n. 1 a strong heavy grating sliding up and down in vertical grooves, lowered to block a gateway in a fortress etc. (城堡等的)吊闸门 2 (Portcullis) Heraldry one of the four pursuivants of the English College of Arms, with this as a badge 【纹章学】(以吊闸门图案为校徽的)英国纹章学院的助理官员 □ portcullised adj.[Middle English from Old French porte coleïce ‘sliding door’, from porte ‘door’ (from Latin porta) + col(e)ïce, fem. of couleïs ‘sliding’, ultimately from Latin colare ‘filter’] |