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Webster 1913 Edition
Portraiture
Por′trai-ture
(?; 135)
, Noun.
[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
The
portraiture
of his. Shakespeare
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.
Por′trai-ture
,Verb.
T.
To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
[R.]
Shaftesbury.
Webster 1828 Edition
Portraiture
PORTRAITURE
,Noun.
Definition 2025
portraiture
portraiture
See also: portraituré
English
Noun
portraiture (plural portraitures)
- A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
- Shakespeare
- For, by the image of my cause, I see / The portraiture of his.
- Shakespeare
- The art of painting or photographing portraits.
- A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔʁ.tʁɛ.tyʁ/
- Homophones: portraiturent, portraitures
Noun
portraiture f (plural portraitures)
- (obsolete) portrait
Derived terms
Verb
portraiture
- first-person singular present indicative of portraiturer
- third-person singular present indicative of portraiturer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of portraiturer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of portraiturer
- second-person singular imperative of portraiturer