Definitions for: Portraiture

[n] the activity of making portraits
[n] a word picture of a person's appearance and character

Webster (1913) Definition: Por"trai*ture (?; 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"trai*ture, v. t.
To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
[R.] --Shaftesbury.

Synonyms: portrait, portrayal

See Also: characterisation, characterization, delineation, delineation, depiction, depiction, picture, portrayal, word picture, word-painting

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