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单词 portraitist
释义 ˈportraitist
[f. portrait n. + -ist: so F. portraitiste.]
One whose occupation it is to take portraits (by painting or photography); esp. a portrait-painter. (In quot. 1899 applied to a sculptor.) Also fig.
1866Standard 12 Sept. 2/3 After the sitter has, by movement or contortion, baffled the portraitist.1875tr. Vogel's Chem. Light 149 Most persons conceive under the term photographer only a portraitist.1881Times 5 Jan. 4/3 Gainsborough we have seen as portraitist and as landscapist.1899Daily News 24 July 7/3 Houdon was the great portraitist in marble of the eighteenth century.1976Amer. N. & Q. XIV. 151/2 JEB [sc. James E. Buttersworth] was becoming an authentic ship portraitist, in response to demands from the owners of the shipping lines.1977V. S. Pritchett Gentle Barbarian viii. 119 Turgenev..is a portraitist who gives the surface of people.
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