pourtraict
English edit
Noun edit
pourtraict (plural pourtraicts)
- Obsolete spelling of portrait
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Picture of Dolphins”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 5th book, page 235:
- […] for beſide the expreſſions of Ovid and Pliny, their Pourtraicts in ſome ancient Coynes are framed in this figure […].