| 单词 | portrait gallery |
| 释义 | > as lemmasportrait gallery portrait gallery n. (a gallery containing) a collection of portraits; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > [noun] > gallery gallerya1616 cabinet1675 picture gallery1721 portrait gallery1780 picture house1838 art gallery1841 art museum1845 rogues' gallery1857 art house1882 1780 R. Gough Brit. Topogr. I. p. xlii The upper windows at Long Melford church..were portrait galleries of the Seckford and Beauchamp families. 1841 R. W. Emerson Lect. on Times (1855) Misc. 215 Why not draw for these times a portrait-gallery? 1934 Evening News 9 July 11/2 The most famous is at the foot of the Irving statue at the side of the National Portrait Gallery. 1992 Canad. Geographic Jan. 86/3 There is some biographical material, including a bizarre portrait gallery presenting 16 Canadians who have won ‘recent awards’. < as lemmas |
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