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Meaning of half-length | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Half the length of a horse.
A portrait or photograph that depicts only the upper half of the subject.

Equivalents

Suomi puolipitkä

Français en buste

Examples

“His portrait, a half-length painted by Howard, was engraved by Vertue, and re-engraved for the Bibliographical Decameron.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

Half-life half-light half-line half-long half-long vowel half-marathon