portraiture

Meaning

Noun

  • A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
  • The art of painting or photographing portraits.
  • A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).

Origin

  • Borrowed from French portraiture.

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