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silhouette

noun as in outline

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The coat, with fitted bodice, nipped-in waist, and full skirt, created a familiar silhouette for Kate.

I would have added “no photographs of meditative politicians walking on the shore” with a slash though a silhouette of JFK.

As you walk in front of the first screen, your silhouette appears and birds swoop down toward you.

And I sat there as he shot the silhouette, but he had to stop because I started frantically crying.

She picks out Diane von Furstenberg dresses and starts really enjoying this new silhouette, this new freedom.

In the dimly-lighted doorway of a corner house the figure of a Chinaman showed as a motionless silhouette.

It was then easy enough to obtain a fairly accurate silhouette, by either outlining the profile or cutting it out from the screen.

He existed, moreover, only in contour; he never rose above harmoniously outlined silhouette.

Pete produced the silhouette of a young lady, and handed it round.

Looking in the same direction I saw, through the haze, the sharp outlines of a city in gray silhouette.

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On this page you'll find 31 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to silhouette, such as: contour, likeness, portrait, shade, shadow, and shape.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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