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Half-length

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Half the normal length. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Of a portrait, sculpture or a photograph, depicting only the upper half of the subject. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    abridged to half its original length wordnet
  2. 2
    representing only the upper half of the body wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Half the length of a horse.
  2. 2
    a portrait showing the body from only the waist up wordnet
  3. 3
    A portrait or photograph that depicts only the upper half of the subject.

    "His portrait, a half-length painted by Howard, was engraved by Vertue, and re-engraved for the Bibliographical Decameron."

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