portraiture
Plural: portraitures
Noun
- a word picture of a person's appearance and character
- the activity of making portraits
- A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
- The art of painting or photographing portraits.
- A portrait (or portraits considered as a group).
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English portraiture, portrature, purtraiture, pourtreture, from Old French portraiture, pourtraiture and Anglo-Norman purtraiture.
Scrabble Score: 13
portraiture: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordportraiture: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
portraiture: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 15
portraiture: valid Words With Friends Word