portrait
/ˈpɔɹtɹət/ noun A2- A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
- An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc. · The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
- A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.
Plural portraits
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I have, therefore, chosen this drawing-room, where you see, smiling and happy in their magnificent frames, your portrait, mine, my mother’s, and all sorts of rural landscapes and touching pastorals.
Then he took away his mother’s portrait, with its oaken frame, leaving the gilt frame from which he took it black and empty.
In the gallery there were many family portraits, but they could have little to fix the attention of a stranger.
“No, I remember his saying that she was of German extraction, and I have seen her portrait.
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