portraiture
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɹɪtjʊə(ɹ)/ / /ˈpɔː(ɹ)tɹɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English portraiture, portrature, purtraiture, pourtreture, from Old French portraiture, pourtraiture and Anglo-Norman purtraiture.
- 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.”
- The art of painting or photographing portraits.
- A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).