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portraiture |
3 definitions found 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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