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portraiture

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Definition:
1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
2. Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.]
3. The art or practice of making portraits.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture.

Bacon.
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That to Laertes I forgot myself,
  For by the image of my cause I see
  The portraiture of his. I'll court his favours.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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not the true world, our senses being little more endowed than our imagination with the art of portraiture,

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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