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portrait

[pawr-trit, -treyt, pohr-] / ˈpɔr trɪt, -treɪt, ˈpoʊr- /


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Not far from the Guthrie guitar is a panoramic portrait of the Kuromi family, posing amid a flower farm that stood where Los Feliz Boulevard is now.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Everyone wears white, and an enlarged portrait of Paul sits on an easel overlooking the quad.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

John Singleton Copley’s 1768 portrait of Paul Revere at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts does something similar, on a smaller scale and in a different medium.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

This year, however, an empty chair bearing his portrait stood at the mausoleum, according to footage broadcast from the site.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

A popular legend grew that Dolley Madison had cut the portrait out of its huge, heavy frame with a carving knife and carried it away.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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