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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
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.
A portrait; painted resemblance.

Definition 2024


portraituré

portraituré

See also: portraiture

French

Verb

portraituré m (feminine singular portraiturée, masculine plural portraiturés, feminine plural portraiturées)

  1. past participle of portraiturer