portraiture
See also: portraituré
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French portraiture.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɹɪtjʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɹɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Noun
portraiture (countable and uncountable, plural portraitures)
- A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:
- For, by the image of my cause, I see / The portraiture of his.
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- The art of painting or photographing portraits.
- A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔʁ.tʁɛ.tyʁ/, /pɔʁ.tʁe.tyʁ/
- Homophones: portraiturent, portraitures
Noun
portraiture f (plural portraitures)
- (obsolete) portrait
Derived terms
- portraiturer
Verb
portraiture
- inflection of portraiturer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “portraiture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.