PORTRAITURES

Noun

portraitures

plural of portraiture

Source: Wiktionary

PORTRAITURE

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