Sekirov Dictionary

portrait

UK /ˈpɔːtɹeɪt/US /ˈpɔɹtɹət/

noun 3
adjective 1
verb 1
forms 3

noun3

•
a picture made to show what one person looks like, most often just the face and the head
- In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. — 1792
•
(figurative) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
- The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

adjective1

Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.

verb1

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(no longer used) To portray; to draw.
- But all as in most exquisite pictures, they vse to blaze and portrait, not only the daintie lineaments or beautie, but also round about it to shadowe the rude thickets and craggy clifts — 1579

forms

portraited · portraiting · portraits

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