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‖ portrait parlé|pɔrtrɛ parle|
Pl. portraits parlés.
[Fr., = spoken portrait.]
A detailed description of a person's physical characteristics in mainly anthropometric terms, esp. one of a type used in the identification of criminals and developed by Alphonse Bertillon (see bertillonage). Also transf.
1913A. B. Reeve Poisoned Pen v. 141 Neither the ‘portrait parlé’ nor the ordinary photography nor any other system will suffice alone against the arch-criminal. 1940N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) xiv. 205 Is this the B-b-Bertillion [sic] system?.. P-portrait parlé? 1956H. T. F. Rhodes Alphonse Bertillon xiv. 105 The portrait parlé is a derivative of the anthropometric system. 1963T. Tullett Inside Interpol iii. 35 One system is unique in police work and based on the Portrait Parle method of facial identification and the famous Bertillon system of measurement of certain key parts of the human frame. 1972R. Cobb Reactions to French Revolution iii. 67 Portraits parlés tell us perhaps more about the police..than about those to whom these visible passports were so painstakingly fixed. 1973Daily Tel. 20 Dec. 7/3 He left an enormous volume of papers. Martin Gilbert has made of them not so much a biography as a portrait parlé. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XIV. 671/2 Long before the birth of Christ, Egyptians used detailed word descriptions of individuals, a concept known today as ‘portrait parle’. |