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Portraiture

//ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɹɪtjʊə(ɹ)// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. countable, uncountable

    "For, by the image of my cause, I see / The portraiture of his."

  2. 2
    the activity of making portraits wordnet
  3. 3
    The art of painting or photographing portraits. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a word picture of a person's appearance and character wordnet
  5. 5
    A portrait (or portraits considered as a group). countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English portraiture, portrature, purtraiture, pourtreture, from Old French portraiture, pourtraiture and Anglo-Norman purtraiture.

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