The Collaborative International Dictionary
Portrait \Por"trait\, n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to portray. See Portray.]
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The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.
In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.
--Sir J. Reynolds.Note: The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to include a photographic likeness.
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Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.
Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue representing the actual features or person of an individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or statue.
Usage examples of "portrait statue".
The Bardekian himself was so withdrawn, so enfolded into his own mind by some dark discipline that he seemed at times to be nothing but a portrait statue of himself, as if he'd already left the present moment to stand in some hypothetical descendant's garden among the statues of their mutual ancestors.
The Bardekian himself was so withdrawn, so enfolded into his own mind by some dark discipline that he seemed at times to be nothing but a portrait statue of himself, as if hed already left the present moment to stand in some hypothetical descendants garden among the statues of their mutual ancestors.