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microportrait

noun

Etymology

From micro- + portrait.

  1. derived from prōtrahō
  2. derived from portraict
  3. prefixed as microportrait — “micro- + portrait”

Definitions

  1. An extremely small portrait.

    • He takes me into an ascetic bedroom with a large carved bed. A few of his microportraits hang on the newly painted stucco walls.

  2. A brief depiction of something.

    • The film presents a microportrait of life deep in the Amazon jungle.
    • The highly rhetorical descriptio of Philomena (ll;. 124–204) shows a courtly writer using a classical character to create a flattering microportrait of courtly society.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA