Category:Portraiture

Por"trai*ture, n. Etym: [f. portraiture.]

1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which Is copied from some example or model. For, by the image of my cause, i see the portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our Neighbors but the portraiture. Bacon.

2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [obs.] Chaucer.

3. The art or practice of making portraits. Walpole.

Portraiture Por"trai*ture, v. t.

Defn: to represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray. [r.] Shaftesbury.