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 bust".
At last he did take a couple of fine small bronzes, one a statuette of Illil with a moon in either hand, the other a portrait bust of Sabium that managed to capture something of her character in spite of being almost as rigidly formulaic as the image of the god.
He noticed the inscription under the portrait bust for the first time.
When all architects and municipal monument committees and portrait bust clients were patronizing the stereopantograph, the church stuck to good old expensive sculpture.
He was big enough to have been Stronghand's son, and he could've passed for a portrait bust of the former king.
I might even do a portrait bust of you, Wentworth, lacking a prettier model.
He swung about to a shelf behind him and lifted down what appeared to be a portrait bust.