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portrait

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


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The museum gathers a splendid array of portraits to highlight the many meanings of fashion in the English painter’s work.

From The Wall Street Journal

But portraits, the most popular form of painting in Gainsborough’s day, paid the rent.

From The Wall Street Journal

As a portrait of an artist at a crossroads, it's compellingly knotty.

From BBC

Nearby, a huge billboard covering an entire building displays a portrait of the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in strikes on Saturday.

From Barron's

In fiction that means a darkly comic novel about a gay married couple on the vacation from hell on to a debut portrait of first-gen Asian American angst.

From Los Angeles Times