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noun

a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a famous person's face.

the outline or general shape of something: the slim silhouette of a skyscraper.

a dark image outlined against a lighter background.

verb (used with object)

to show in or as if in a silhouette.

Printing. to remove the background details from (a halftone cut) so as to produce an outline effect.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Origin:
1790–1800; < French à la silhouette, after Etienne de Silhouette (1709–67), French finance minister

Related forms

un·sil·hou·et·ted, adjective

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Three human figures silhouetted against the blinds in.

Its silhouetted battlements running along the skyline spur me on.

Arrange multiple silhouetted pumpkins along the center of an outdoor table.

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Three human figures silhouetted against the blinds in.

Its silhouetted battlements running along the skyline spur me on.

Arrange multiple silhouetted pumpkins along the center of an outdoor table.

Silhouetted against the black, the man's red shirt and yellow vest and hat add to the visual drama.

In addition to the luminescent proplyds, seven disks are silhouetted against the bright background of the nebula.

Silhouetted dancers move through a series of stretching combinations.

Silhouetted against the headlights of their engine.

The prettiest shot shows two aerialists silhouetted against the final moments of a glorious sunset.

Make the point that the complete fish shape is silhouetted when seen against scattered.

Silhouetted against an out-of-focus window, a shadowy profile embodies introspection.

On a nearby ridge, silhouetted against the thunderheads, appeared two middle-aged men armed with staffs.

Sometimes it is the whaler under full sail silhouetted on the sun-silvered, choppy sea.

Lodgepole pines stand silhouetted against a darkening purple sky.

The show opens with an evocative image: a distant, jittery nighttime shot of a silhouetted figure.

Then settle in for a private sunset dinner on your veranda overlooking silhouetted baobabs on the dambo.

Then sometimes his workers are silhouetted against the dying day.

Elicit from students that the complete fish shape is silhouetted when seen against scattered.

The rest of the photograph is taken up by the raised lid of a large grand piano, strategically silhouetted against a blank.

Drawing her bow, she seems to be aiming at the silhouetted figure of a man far away down a long hallway.

The pair grew especially energized each time one spotted a dive-bombing bat silhouetted against the sky.

Her wool coat is open, revealing a yellow shirt, with a single breast silhouetted underneath.

His transformation took place behind a screen through which his silhouetted figure could be seen being groomed and coiffed.

They are amusing and allow the performers to be silhouetted as figures in a drawing.

Roll over the silhouetted figures to see recent comments in each topic area.

Her figures are silhouetted against dark gouache renderings that seem backlighted by the sun or the moon.

Billboards are darkly silhouetted against distant city lights.

Two horses silhouetted against the arid hills soften the bleakness of the landscape.

Silhouetted against a video screen, her backup singers appeared to be wearing burqas.

The book starts and ends with white silhouetted images of old and new products to illustrate the whole spectrum of its work.

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Word Origin & History

silhouette

1798, from Fr. silhouette, in allusion to Étienne de Silhouette (1709-67), Fr. minister of finance in 1759. Usually said to be so called because it was an inexpensive way of making a likeness of someone, a derisive reference to Silhouette's petty economies to finance the Seven Years' War, which

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were unpopular among the nobility. But other theories are that it refers to his brief tenure in office, or the story that he decorated his chateau with such portraits. The verb is recorded from 1876. The family name is a Frenchified form of a Basque surname; Arnaud de Silhouette, the finance minister's father, was from Biarritz in the French Basque country; the southern Basque form of the name would be Zuloeta or Zulueta, which contains the suffix -eta "abundance of" and zulo "hole" (possibly here meaning "cave").

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