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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.; – so called from Etienne de

Silhoutte

, a French minister of finance in 1759, whise diversion it was to make such portraits on the walls of his apartments.]

A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.

Verb.

To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.

[Recent]

A flock of roasting vultures

silhouetted

on the sky.

The Century.

See also: silhouette and Silhouette

silhouetté m ‎(feminine singular silhouettée, masculine plural silhouettés, feminine plural silhouettées)