'Portraiture' definitions:
Definition of 'portraiture'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Portraiture'
From: GCIDE
- Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\ (?; 135), n. [F. portraiture.]
- 1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. [1913 Webster]
- For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The art or practice of making portraits. --Walpole. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Portraiture'
From: GCIDE
- Portraiture \Por"trai*ture\, v. t. To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [R.] --Shaftesbury. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'portraiture'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acrylic painting,
- alphabet,
- art,
- blueprint,
- cameo,
- catalog,
- cataloging,
- character,
- character sketch,
- charactering,
- characterization,
- chart,
- choreography,
- coloring,
- conventional representation,
- dance notation,
- delineation,
- demonstration,
- depiction,
- depictment,
- description,
- details,
- diagram,
- drama,
- drawing,
- encaustic cerography,
- encaustic painting,
- evocation,
- exemplification,
- figuration,
- finger painting,
- flower painting,
- fresco painting,
- genre painting,
- gouache,
- graphic account,
- grisaille,
- head,
- hieroglyphic,
- iconography,
- ideogram,
- illumination,
- illustration,
- image,
- imagery,
- imaging,
- impasto,
- impression,
- itemization,
- letter,
- limning,
- logogram,
- logograph,
- map,
- miniature,
- monochrome,
- mural painting,
- musical notation,
- notation,
- oil painting,
- painting,
- particularization,
- photograph,
- pictogram,
- picture,
- picturization,
- plan,
- portrait,
- portrayal,
- poster painting,
- prefigurement,
- presentment,
- printing,
- profile,
- projection,
- realization,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- representation,
- schema,
- score,
- script,
- silhouette,
- sketch,
- specification,
- syllabary,
- symbol,
- tablature,
- the brush,
- vignette,
- vivid description,
- wash,
- wash drawing,
- word painting,
- writing