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portraiture

[ pawr-tri-cher, pohr- ]

noun

  1. the art or an instance of making portraits.
  2. a pictorial representation; portrait.
  3. a verbal picture.


portraiture

/ ˈpɔːtrɪtʃə /

noun

  1. the practice or art of making portraits
    1. another term for portrait
    2. portraits collectively
  2. a verbal description


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Word History and Origins

Origin of portraiture1

1325–75; Middle English < Middle French; portrait, -ure

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Example Sentences

However, argues Hall, the point in history when self-portraiture really took off was during the Middle Ages.

That technology can also expand the concepts of traditional self-portraiture and of selfies.

This is not the first exhibit to ever take on selfies, nor the first examination of portraiture.

Steve McCurry: Well, I thought of this more as a portraiture project of models rather than a fashion shoot in a way.

This penetrating style of portraiture works on the subtlest of emotional responses as well.

I think these extracts are sufficient to give a portraiture of the place in olden times.

This solemn tragedy they felt to be the theme of devout and prayerful meditation rather than of portraiture in art.

This portraiture of his brother-artist is not a bad specimen of its kind, although we shall meet with better ones.

The last-quoted letter adds a few more touches to the portraiture of Chopin which has been in progress in the preceding pages.

His Life by his satellite Boswell holds the first place among biographies as a triumph of portraiture.

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