Portraiture

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\ (?; 135), n. [F. portraiture.]
     1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that
        which is copied from some example or model.
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              For, by the image of my cause, I see


              The portraiture of his.               --Shak.
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              Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern;
              the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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     3. The art or practice of making portraits. --Walpole.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\, v. t.
     To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
     [R.] --Shaftesbury.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  portraiture
       n 1: a word picture of a person's appearance and character [syn:
            {portrayal}, {portrait}]
       2: the activity of making portraits

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "portraiture":
     acrylic painting, alphabet, art, blueprint, cameo, catalog,
     cataloging, character, character sketch, charactering,
     characterization, chart, choreography, coloring,
     conventional representation, dance notation, delineation,
     demonstration, depiction, depictment, description, details,
     diagram, drama, drawing, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting,
     evocation, exemplification, figuration, finger painting,
     flower painting, fresco painting, genre painting, gouache,
     graphic account, grisaille, head, hieroglyphic, iconography,
     ideogram, illumination, illustration, image, imagery, imaging,
     impasto, impression, itemization, letter, limning, logogram,
     logograph, map, miniature, monochrome, mural painting,
     musical notation, notation, oil painting, painting,
     particularization, photograph, pictogram, picture, picturization,
     plan, portrait, portrayal, poster painting, prefigurement,
     presentment, printing, profile, projection, realization, rendering,
     rendition, representation, schema, score, script, silhouette,
     sketch, specification, syllabary, symbol, tablature, the brush,
     vignette, vivid description, wash, wash drawing, word painting,
     writing