Word of the Day
Portrait
Mac Dictionary’s definition:
1 a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, esp. one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.
• a representation or impression of someone or something in language or on film : the writer builds up a full and fascinating portrait of a community.
2 [as adj. ] (of a page, book, or illustration, or the manner in which it is set or printed) higher than it is wide : you can print landscape and portrait pages in the same document. Compare with landscape (sense 2).
DERIVATIVES
portraitist |ˈpôrtrətist; -ˌtrātist| noun (in sense 1) .
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French, past participle (used as a noun) of Old French portraire ‘portray.’
Pictures of you, pictures of me, when we come together is when we form harmony.
