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porˈtrayer
Also 4–5 our.
[f. portray v. + -er1 2, for earlier -our. So obs. F. po(u)rtrayeur (16th c.).]
One who portrays; a painter or drawer of pictures or portraits; a delineator (lit. and fig.).
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1041 (Harl. MS.) Ne purtreyour [v.rr. purtreiour, -traiour, -treoure; Ellesm. portreitour] ne keruer of ymages. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xi. (MS. Digby 232) lf. 31/2 He sent also For euery ymagour Bothe in entaylle & euery portreyour [MS. Digby 230 (c 1425) portratoure]. 1479J. Paston in P. Lett. III. 268 The man at Sent Bridis is no klenly portrayer. 1621R. Brathwait Nat. Embassie (1877) 89 Portrayers of thy wit and learning too. 1828in Webster. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. vi. §2 (1879) 269 To bear in mind the essential difference..between the characters of the ‘subject’ and his pourtrayer. |