Portraiture /(?; 135)/
Por·trai·ture
Portraiture
n.
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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.
Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.
- Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.]
- The art or practice of making portraits.
Portraiture
v. t.
- To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [R.]