portraiture
['pɒ:tritʃә]
n. 像绘制(), 像, 描写



portraiture
[ noun ]

1. a word picture of a person's appearance and character

<noun.communication>

2. the activity of making portraits

<noun.act>

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.


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