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Definition of portraiture - 4 dictionary results

por⋅trai⋅ture

[pawr-tri-cher, pohr-]
–noun
1. the art or an instance of making portraits.
2. a pictorial representation; portrait.
3. a verbal picture.

Origin:
1325–75; ME < MF; see portrait, -ure
por·trai·ture   (pôr'trĭ-chŏŏr', pōr'-)   
n.  
  1. The art or practice of making portraits.
  2. A portrait.
  3. Portraits considered as a group.

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.

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.

Portraiture

Por"trai*ture\, v. t. To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [R.] --Shaftesbury.
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