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n.
An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
n.
The discussion or description of portraiture or of representative images. Cf. Iconography.
v. t.
To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
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The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.
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An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
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One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.
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A portrait or statue representing the whole figure.
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Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.
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A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
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A portrait painter.
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The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion.
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A portrait or representation of the face of our Savior on the alleged handkerchief of Saint Veronica, preserved at Rome; hence, a representation of this portrait, or any similar representation of the face of the Savior. Formerly called also Vernacle, and Vernicle.
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Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
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One who paints portraits.
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A portrait.
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A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
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The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.
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Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Terminal.
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The art or practice of making portraits.
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Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.
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