Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\, v. t.
To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
[R.] --Shaftesbury.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Portraiture \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.
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For, by the image of my cause, I see
The portraiture of his. --Shak.
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Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern;
the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.
--Bacon.
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2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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3. The art or practice of making portraits. --Walpole.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
portraiture
n 1: a word picture of a person's appearance and character [syn:
{portrayal}, {portraiture}, {portrait}]
2: the activity of making portraits
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