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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
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