portraiture

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   the activity of making portraits

3. 3
   noun

   a word picture of a person's appearance and character

4. 4
   noun

   The art of painting or photographing portraits.

5. 5
   noun

   A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).

Etymology

From Middle English portraiture, portrature, purtraiture, pourtreture, from Old French portraiture, pourtraiture and Anglo-Norman purtraiture.