portraiture

Borrowed from French portraiture.

portraiture (countable and uncountable, plural portraitures)

1. 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.

2. The art of painting or photographing portraits.
3. A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.tʁɛ.tyʁ/
• Homophones: portraiturent, portraitures

portraiture f (plural portraitures)

1. (obsolete) portrait

• portraiturer

portraiture

1. first-person singular present indicative of portraiturer
2. third-person singular present indicative of portraiturer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of portraiturer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of portraiturer
5. second-person singular imperative of portraiturer

• “portraiture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).