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Definition of Portraitures
Portraiture Portraiture Por"trai*ture, v. t.
To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
[R.] --Shaftesbury.
Portraiture 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.
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.
