portraiture
See also: portraituré
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English portraiture, portrature, purtraiture, pourtreture, from Old French portraiture, pourtraiture and Anglo-Norman purtraiture.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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, [Act V, scene ii]:
- 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).
French edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /pɔʁ.tʁɛ.tyʁ/, /pɔʁ.tʁe.tyʁ/
Audio (file) - Homophones: portraiturent, portraitures
Noun edit
portraiture f (plural portraitures)
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
portraiture
- inflection of portraiturer:
Further reading edit
- “portraiture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.