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portraiture

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  1. 1. n. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. Pictures, collectively; painting. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. The art or practice of making portraits. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. a word word/picture">picture of a person's appearance and character Source: wordnet
  6. 6. n. the activity of making portraits Source: wordnet
  7. 7. 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. To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [R.] Shaftesbury. Source: webster
  8. 8. To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.[R.] Shaftesbury. Source: adambom
  9. 9. n:100 n. the activity of making portraits Source: ecdict

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