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  • noun Plural form of portraiture.

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Examples

  • First the candy: Known as Mozart Kugeln, packed in a delightful red tin with tiny portraitures of the composer, these are deluxe confections exquisitely filled with marzipan, made from "fresh green pistachios, almonds and rich hazelnut-nougat, enrobed with delicious milk and bitter chocolates."

    Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week Rozanne Gold 2012

  • First the candy: Known as Mozart Kugeln, packed in a delightful red tin with tiny portraitures of the composer, these are deluxe confections exquisitely filled with marzipan, made from "fresh green pistachios, almonds and rich hazelnut-nougat, enrobed with delicious milk and bitter chocolates."

    Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week Rozanne Gold 2012

  • First the candy: Known as Mozart Kugeln, packed in a delightful red tin with tiny portraitures of the composer, these are deluxe confections exquisitely filled with marzipan, made from "fresh green pistachios, almonds and rich hazelnut-nougat, enrobed with delicious milk and bitter chocolates."

    Rozanne Gold: Tastes of the Week Rozanne Gold 2012

  • Written in hieroglyphic form with accompanying portraitures, the historical texts are based on an early form of the Maya language, probably Chol.

    Primary sources of Maya history - part one 2008

  • Written in hieroglyphic form with accompanying portraitures, the historical texts are based on an early form of the Maya language, probably Chol.

    Primary sources of Maya history - part one 2008

  • But his talent is seen in his other photographs of architecture, cars, and portraitures.

    The Punishable Photographer 2009

  • And they unveiled these two unusual -- they call them plaques -- they're more like portraitures -- of the late John Lennon and George Harrison.

    CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2007 2007

  • If you venture to express a doubt of the accuracy of any of these portraitures, the theatrical young gentleman assures you, with a haughty smile, that it always has been done in that way, and he supposes they are not going to change it at this time of day to please you; to which, of course, you meekly reply that you suppose not.

    Sketches by Boz 2007

  • Doctor Johnson, who visited him at Saint Boniface — and other lawyers, scholars, and divines, whose portraitures look from the walls, or whose coats-of-arms shine in emerald and ruby, gold and azure, in the tall windows of the refectory.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • But you may observe that artists in all ages have sought for higher types of models in painting women who have been violent or criminal, than have sufficed for them in their portraitures of gentleness and virtue.

    The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

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