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Portrait   /pˈɔrtrət/   Listen
Portrait

noun
1.
A word picture of a person's appearance and character.  Synonyms: portraiture, portrayal.
2.
Any likeness of a person, in any medium.  Synonym: portrayal.



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"Portrait" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Spectator[253], has given us a fine portrait of a clergyman, who is supposed to be a member of his Club; and Johnson has exhibited a model, in the character of Mr. Mudge[254], which has escaped the collectors of his works, but which he owned to me, and which ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell

... Jan. 16. Rubinstein's musical portrait "Faust," and Gade's "Spring Fantasia" given in New York City, ...
— Annals of Music in America - A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events • Henry Charles Lahee

... at her, and again his eye wandered over the room. He saw a little coloured portrait of a child with a fleece of brownish-gold hair and surprised eyes, in a pale-blue stiff frock with a broad ...
— The Lost Girl • D. H. Lawrence

... who has attentively perused and thought over the Arabic text (for mere cursory reading, especially in a translation, will not suffice) can hesitate to allow. In fact, every phrase of the preceding sentences, every touch in this odious portrait, has been taken, to the best of my ability, word for word, or at least meaning for meaning, from the 'Book,' the truest mirror of the mind and scope ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke

... the word. Silence reigned in the big, bright room except for the occasional rustle of Clarence's newspaper. His wife sat idle, her eyes roving indifferently from the gayly papered walls to the gayly flowered hangings, the great bowl of daffodils on the bookcase, the portrait of Carol that, youthful and self-conscious, looked down from the mantel. On the desk a later photograph of Carol, in a silver frame, was duly flanked by one of Rachael, the girl in the gown she had worn for her first big dance, the woman looking out from under the narrow ...
— The Heart of Rachael • Kathleen Norris


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