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portrait
[ pawr-trit, -treyt, pohr- ]
noun
- a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph:
a gallery of family portraits.
- a verbal picture or description, usually of a person:
a biography that provides a fascinating portrait of an 18th-century rogue.
adjective
- Digital Technology. relating to or producing vertical, upright orientation of computer or other digital output, with lines of data parallel to the two shorter sides of a page or screen. Compare landscape. Compare landscape ( def 8 ).
portrait
/ -treɪt; ˈpÉ”Ëtrɪt /
noun
- a painting, drawing, sculpture, photograph, or other likeness of an individual, esp of the face
- ( as modifier )
a portrait gallery
- a verbal description or picture, esp of a person's character
adjective
- printing (of a publication or an illustration in a publication) of greater height than width Compare landscape
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Example Sentences
Leslie gives a complete portrait of this remarkably fecund and frequently tortured creative partnership, which began in Liverpool in 1957 and ended in New York City on Dec. 8, 1980, with Lennon’s murder.
Trump admires not just McKinley, but he also has, apparently, a portrait of James Polk, who was responsible for the Mexican War and the annexation of large amounts of lands from Mexico.
He said the portraits in his new book were "even more rubbish than you could have ever expected".
In this unfiltered, unvarnished portrait of the artist, Sheff succeeds magnificently in bringing one of popular music’s most divisive and misunderstood personae to life.
At the time, Fox captioned a pair of photos — one, a maternity portrait, and another, a black-and-white shot of a positive pregnancy test — with the sentiment, “Nothing is ever really lost. Welcome back.â€
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