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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\, v. t.
To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
[R.] --Shaftesbury.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\ (?; 135), n. [F. portraiture.]
1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence that
which is copied from some example or model.
For by the image of my cause I see The portraiture
of his --Shak.
Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern;
the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.
--Bacon.
2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
3. The art or practice of making portraits. --Walpole.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
portraiture
n 1: a word picture of a person's appearance and character [syn:
{portrayal}, {portrait}]
2: the activity of making portraits
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