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portraiture(dictionary)

portraiture (iou)



portraiture noun & verb. LME.
[Old French, from pa. pple portrait: see PORTRAIT noun, PORTRAY verb, -URE.]
A. noun.
The action or art of portraying; delineation; portrayal. LME.
Edinburgh Review Portraiture rose to its highest excellence as..sculpture faded.
A figure or delineation of a person or thing; a picture, a drawing, a portrait. Also, portraits collectively. LME.
J. Rosenberg Rembrandt's portraiture comprises at least two-thirds of his painted work.
b. A solid image, a statue. M16-E18.
An image, a representation; a mental image, an idea. Cf. PORTRAIT noun 3a. LME.
a. The action or art of portraying in words; graphic description. LME.
J. R. Seeley A tempting subject for literary portraiture.
b. A verbal picture or representation; a graphic description. E17.
C. Clarke Shakespeare's portraiture of John of Gaunt.
Form, likeness, appearance. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
b. verb trans. Make a portraiture or portrait of, portray. Now rare or obsolete. L16.