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pourtraict

pourtraict is the obsolete spelling of portrait.

Meaning of portrait

Noun

portrait (countable and uncountable, plural portraits)

  1. (countable) A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
    • In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.a. 1792, Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts
  2. (countable, figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
    • The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
  3. A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

See all 5 meanings of portrait

Forms of pourtraict

pluralpourtraicts

Questions about pourtraict

What is pourtraict the obsolete spelling of?
Pourtraict is the obsolete spelling of portrait.

Words near pourtraict in the dictionary

  1. poursuits
  2. poursuivant
  3. poursuivants
  4. pourtract
  5. pourtracts
  6. pourtraict
  7. pourtraicts
  8. pourtray
  9. pourtrayed
  10. pourtraying
  11. pourtrays

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pourtraict (page history and authors); portrait (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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