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portraiture
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
por·trai·ture
/ ˈpôrtricher; -ˌchoŏr/
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n.
the art of creating portraits.
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graphic and detailed description, esp. of a person:
it's part murder mystery and part portraiture through poetry.
∎ formal
a portrait.
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