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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A person who makes portraits, especially a painter or photographer.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A maker of portraits; a portrait-painter; one who devotes his attention particularly to portraits, as a photographer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A portrait painter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A painter or photographer who makes portraits

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a painter or drawer of portraits

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