What does "portraiture" mean?
Portraiture: Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Additional senses
- 2.The art or practice of making portraits. Walpole.
- 3.To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [R.] Shaftesbury.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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