Meaning of portraitor | Babel Free

Definitions

One who makes portraits.

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Examples

“His face was oval—not unlike in shape and beauty that which portraitors represent that of Edward VI, England’s youthful monarch; and the face of this youth was princely.”

“As nearly all the articles we have seen about the Exhibition have commented chiefly upon the landscape and fancy-department of Art, we have thought best to say a little more about Portraits, (of which it may be somewhat unfashionable to take much notice,) not a few being specimens worthy of special attention. / ‘Among the Portraitors, if you will allow the word, we should undoubtedly place Elliott at the head of the first rank. The specimens he has given us this year are admirable—full of truth and full of life.”

“Professional photographers do their portrait work under conditions which are beyond the pale of the majority of workers, and for the latter to really derive satisfaction from portrait work it is necessary to put on one side all conventions which have become the stock property of professional portraitors.”

“You get all set for the shot, and then at the last second the photographer cracks one calculated to bring just a natural smile to your too set expression, and when the proofs of the crime come to light there you are, with the same old cynical grin which has already cost you so many friends. Honestly, going to the photographer for a new cut of my map is a lot worse than visiting the dentist—I don’t mind a visit to the dentist when I’m all square with him. But these portraitors come in handy when you have an encounter with poison ivy. One of the very best remedies for the relief of the burning, itching skin inflammation is photographer’s fixing solution—hyposulphite of soda, which should be applied on bandages or compresses.”

“Romantic portraitors flourished in Greece at the turn of the century. Outstanding portrait painters were: Xydias, Rizos, Lembesis, Panorios, Economou, Gyzis, Nicephorus Lytras, Procopiou, Triantaphyllides.”

“We offer brushes for every application: 4-inch wide brushes (4 gp) for painting clapboards, 1-inch and 1-inch wide brushes (5 gp each) for sign painting, and 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and hairline brushes (3 gp) for portraitors and painters.”

“Square Henry fills the frame, but he won't square this with heaven, no matter how many royal portraitors request his fanny sitting on the stool of a bleeding Empire.”

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