PORTRAITURE

portraiture

(noun) the activity of making portraits

portrayal, portraiture, portrait

(noun) a word picture of a person’s appearance and character

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

portraiture (countable and uncountable, plural portraitures)

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

The art of painting or photographing portraits.

A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).

Source: Wiktionary


Por"trai*ture, n. Etym: [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.

Por"trai*ture, v. t.

Definition: To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [R.] Shaftesbury.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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