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full length
The entire length or extension of any object.
1. In advbl. phrase, (at) full length.
1709Steele & Addison Tatler No. 93 ⁋4, I have..drawn at full Length, the Figures of all sorts of Men. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. vi, By constructing..a temporary sofa of three chairs..and lying down at full-length upon it. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 47 Of polished marble thou full-length shalt stand.
2. attrib., as full-length figure, full length portrait, etc. Also ellipt. a full-length.
1760Sterne Tr. Shandy i. xxiii. 171 One of these you will see drawing a full-length character against the light. 1782T. Pennant Journ. Chester to London 383 In the hall is a full-length of the unfortunate Mary Queen of Scots. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. II. xiv. 141 A full-length portrait..of a little girl. 1894A. D. White in Pop. Sci. Monthly XLIV. 722 A full-length woodcut showing the Almighty in the act of extracting Eve. 1896Westm. Gaz. 1 May 1/2 Just above the line, hangs a full-length of the German Emperor. 1897Daily News 8 Apr. 8/1 This is, we under⁓stand, the first full-length novel he has written.
fig.1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 296 What may be called a close and full-length portrait [of a disease]. |