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(; 135), n.[F. portraiture.] 1. 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. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture. Bacon. 2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] Chaucer. 3. The art or practice of making portraits. Walpole. Por"traiture v. t.To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [R.] Shaftesbury. スポンサード リンク
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