About The Word Portraiture
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Portraiture
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What's The Definition Of Portraiture?
[n] the activity of making portraits
[n] a word picture of a person's appearance and character Synonyms | Synonyms for Portraiture: portrait | portrayal Related Terms | Find terms related to Portraiture: acrylic painting | alphabet | art | blueprint | cameo | catalog | cataloging | character | character sketch | charactering | characterization | chart | choreography | coloring | conventional representation | dance notation | delineation | demonstration | depiction | depictment | description | details | diagram | drama | drawing | encaustic cerography | encaustic painting | evocation | exemplification | figuration | finger painting | flower painting | fresco painting | genre painting | gouache | graphic account | grisaille | head | hieroglyphic | iconography | ideogram | illumination | illustration | image | imagery | imaging | impasto | impression | itemization | letter | limning | logogram | logograph | map | miniature | monochrome | mural painting | musical notation | notation | oil painting | painting | particularization | photograph | pictogram | picture | picturization | plan | portrait | portrayal | poster painting | prefigurement | presentment | printing | profile | projection | realization | rendering | rendition | representation | schema | score | script | silhouette | sketch | specification | syllabary | symbol | tablature | the brush | vignette | vivid description | wash | wash drawing | word painting | writing See Also | characterisation | characterization | delineation | delineation | depiction | depiction | picture | portrayal | word picture | word-painting Portraiture In Webster's Dictionary \Por"trai*ture\ (?; 135), n. [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. To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [R.] --Shaftesbury. |
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