单词 | group portrait |
释义 | > as lemmasgroup portrait c. attributive. Designating a picture or photograph of a number of people together, esp. one in which the subjects have posed for the picture, as group photograph, group portrait, etc. ΚΠ 1855 North Wales Chron. 8 Sept. 1/1 (heading) Group portraits. 1860 Rep. Overseers Harvard Coll. appointed to visit Libr. 1859 12 This group-photograph derives especial interest from the remarkable fact of there having been so many Presidents living at the same time. 1918 W. Owen Let. c9 June (1967) 558 Preserve me from..plush chairs, group-photographs, flowers under glass-shades. 1937 H. Read Art & Society iv. 171 There had grown up in Holland..a custom of commissioning group-portraits. 1971 C. Fick Danziger Transcript (1973) 81 Make stats of all the graduation and group pictures. 2003 B. B. Rotmil Faustus in Pasquack viii. 74 The smiling group photos of his family; his roundish-faced wife Edna and their three lovely children. < as lemmas |
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