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