Portraiture
Pronunciation : Por"trai*ture
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [F. portraiture.]
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Por"trai*ture
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [R.] Shaftesbury.
t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913