physionotracen.

Brit.

/ˌfɪzɪˈɒnətreɪs/, U.S.

/ˌfɪziˈɑnəˌtreɪs/

Forms: 1800s– physiognotrace, 1800s– physionotrace.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French physionotrace.

Etymology: < French physionotrace (1789 or earlier) < physiono- (in physionomie physiognomy n.) + trace trace n.¹

Now historical.

An instrument used as an aid to making lifelike profile portraits by enabling the artist to trace rapidly and accurately round the shadow cast by the sitter. Cf. silhouette n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > other equipment

physionotrace1803

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spline1891

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1803 C.W. Peale Let. 10 Jan. in B. Oberg Papers T. Jefferson (2012) XXXIX. 306 I..enclose a few profiles taken by the physiognotrace in the Museum [in Philadelphia], invented by Mr. Hawkins.

1822 Times 23 Dec. 4/2 The Physionotrace or transformation of faces, a new and ingenious invention to display the varieties of human features, in boxes at 7s. 6d.

1874 Subject-matter Index Patents 1790–1873 (U.S. Patent Office) II. 1039 Physiognotrace... May 4, 1803.

1892 Cent. Mag. Feb. 599 The last known original portrait of Washington also accompanies this article, and the outline of the profile must be true to life. It was made with the physionotrace at Philadelphia in November, 1798, by C. B. F. de St. Memin.

1939 G. Morris in B. C. Davenport Diary French Revolution p. xx The present frontispiece shows Morris as his French friends were seeing him, for it was in the spring of 1789 that he went to have this profile taken by the ‘Physionotrace’ instrument invented three years before by Gilles-Louis Chrétien.

1950 V. Barker Amer. Painting iv. 371 He advertised profiles in gold on glass for three dollars and in cutouts by the physiognotrace for fifty cents.

1979 G. Macdonald Camera i. 9 The physionotrace..used a system of levers which retraced shadows into perfect small profiles for cameo silhouettes.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	physionotrace
释义	physionotracen. Brit. /ˌfɪzɪˈɒnətreɪs/, U.S. /ˌfɪziˈɑnəˌtreɪs/ Forms: 1800s– physiognotrace, 1800s– physionotrace. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French physionotrace. Etymology: < French physionotrace (1789 or earlier) < physiono- (in physionomie physiognomy n.) + trace trace n.¹ Now historical. An instrument used as an aid to making lifelike profile portraits by enabling the artist to trace rapidly and accurately round the shadow cast by the sitter. Cf. silhouette n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > other equipment physionotrace1803 throne1819 spline1891 romer1929 1803 C.W. Peale Let. 10 Jan. in B. Oberg Papers T. Jefferson (2012) XXXIX. 306 I..enclose a few profiles taken by the physiognotrace in the Museum [in Philadelphia], invented by Mr. Hawkins. 1822 Times 23 Dec. 4/2 The Physionotrace or transformation of faces, a new and ingenious invention to display the varieties of human features, in boxes at 7s. 6d. 1874 Subject-matter Index Patents 1790–1873 (U.S. Patent Office) II. 1039 Physiognotrace... May 4, 1803. 1892 Cent. Mag. Feb. 599 The last known original portrait of Washington also accompanies this article, and the outline of the profile must be true to life. It was made with the physionotrace at Philadelphia in November, 1798, by C. B. F. de St. Memin. 1939 G. Morris in B. C. Davenport Diary French Revolution p. xx The present frontispiece shows Morris as his French friends were seeing him, for it was in the spring of 1789 that he went to have this profile taken by the ‘Physionotrace’ instrument invented three years before by Gilles-Louis Chrétien. 1950 V. Barker Amer. Painting iv. 371 He advertised profiles in gold on glass for three dollars and in cutouts by the physiognotrace for fifty cents. 1979 G. Macdonald Camera i. 9 The physionotrace..used a system of levers which retraced shadows into perfect small profiles for cameo silhouettes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1803
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