portraiture

See also: portraituré

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French portraiture.

Noun

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).

French

Pronunciation

Noun

portraiture f (plural portraitures)

  1. (obsolete) portrait

Derived terms

Verb

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

Further reading

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