portraiture definition

  • noun:
    • The art or practice of creating portraits.
    • A portrait.
    • Portraits thought to be a bunch.
    • the art of painting or photographing portraits
    • a portrait (or portraits regarded as friends)
    • A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; for this reason, whatever is copied from some example or design.
    • photographs, collectively; painting.
    • The art or rehearse of creating portraits.
    • A representation or picture; a painted resemblance; a likeness or portrait.
    • Likenesses or portraits collectively.
    • the skill of making portraits; the art or practice of portraying or depicting, whether in photos or perhaps in terms; the art of the portraitist.
    • the experience of creating portraits
    • a word image of someone's look and character

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  • verb-transitive:
    • To portray by a portrait, or because by a portrait; to portray.
  • others:
    • To paint; portray.

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