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microportrait

microportrait noun: an extremely small portrait.

Noun

microportrait (plural microportraits)

  1. An extremely small portrait.
    • He takes me into an ascetic bedroom with a large carved bed. A few of his microportraits hang on the newly painted stucco walls.1978, Howard Wolf, Forgive the Father: A Memoir of Changing Generations, Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, →ISBN, page 118
  2. A brief depiction of something.
    • The film presents a microportrait of life deep in the Amazon jungle.
    • The highly rhetorical descriptio of Philomena (ll;. 124–204) shows a courtly writer using a classical character to create a flattering microportrait of courtly society.2001, Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, New York: Palgrave, →ISBN, page 162

Forms of microportrait

pluralmicroportraits
alternative formmicro-portrait

Origin of microportrait

From micro- + portrait.

Questions about microportrait

What does microportrait mean?
Microportrait means an extremely small portrait.
What part of speech is microportrait?
Microportrait is a noun.
What is the plural of microportrait?
The plural of microportrait is microportraits.

Words near microportrait in the dictionary

  1. microporosities
  2. microporosity
  3. microporous
  4. microporphyric
  5. microporphyritic
  6. microportrait
  7. microportraits
  8. micropositioner
  9. micropositioners
  10. micropositioning
  11. micropost

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