portobello

¹

[ pawr-tuh-bel-oh, pohr- ]

noun

, plural por·to·bel·los.

1. portabella.

Portobello

²

[ pawr-toh-bel-oh, pohr- ]

noun

1. a small seaport on the Caribbean coast of Panama, NE of Colón: harbor discovered and named by Columbus 1502; a principal city of Spanish colonial America.

Example Sentences

Dennis Friedman would soak, marinate, compress and skewer portobello mushrooms until they ballooned out and “looked like meat on a spit,” the chef and co-founder recalls.

From Washington Post

Alas, thanks to legions of soggy bell pepper-zucchini skewers and undercooked slabs of eggplant, grilled vegetables tend to be a tough sell among the meat-eating crowd — woe to the marinated portobello that dares to compete with a rack of pork ribs.

From Eater

Check the package label, or seek out Dole Portobello Mushrooms and Monterey Mushrooms.

From The Daily Beast

Cool restaurants along Portobello Road are gone, replaced by restaurants affordable only for bankers and foreigners.

From The Daily Beast

The roasted portobello and their pizzas are worth the trip alone.

From The Daily Beast

Even Stephen King said, with Portobello, Rendell “has surpassed herself.”

From The Daily Beast

Lamb burgers, turkey burgers, tuna burgers, Portobello mushroom burgers… There are lots of options for what a burger can be.

From The Daily Beast

Vice-Admiral Vernon with only six men-of-war had taken the town of Portobello, and levelled its fortifications.

From Project Gutenberg

Usually the soldiers went down High Street and out to Portobello on the sea.

From Project Gutenberg

Portobello (with Panama on the other side of the narrow isthmus) was the sole commercial harbour of South America.

From Project Gutenberg

The captain of the Portobello, a hale, blue-eyed grey-beard, was the last upon the deck.

From Project Gutenberg

Puerto de Bastimentos is a harbor about twelve miles northeast of Portobello.

From Project Gutenberg