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pourtraict

pourtraict

English

Noun

pourtraict (plural pourtraicts)

  1. Obsolete spelling of portrait
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society 2007, p. 427:
      For, beside the expressions of Ovid and Pliny, their Pourtraicts in some ancient Coyns are framed in this figure [...].