portraiture
See also: portraituré
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French portraiture.
Noun
portraiture (countable and uncountable, plural portraitures)
- 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.
- Shakespeare
- The art of painting or photographing portraits.
- A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔʁ.tʁɛ.tyʁ/
- Homophones: portraiturent, portraitures
Derived terms
Verb
portraiture
- first-person singular present indicative of portraiturer
- third-person singular present indicative of portraiturer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of portraiturer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of portraiturer
- second-person singular imperative of portraiturer
Further reading
- “portraiture” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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