单词 | profilist |
释义 | profilistn. Originally: a person who produces profile portraits or silhouettes (now historical). Later also: a person who writes biographical profiles. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > silhouetting or shadow-painting > artist profile painter1778 profilist1793 silhouettist1835 1793 H. Piozzi Let. 19 July (1914) iii. 95 Mr. Dance the profilist is making a collection of celebrated heads. 1808 C. Lamb Let. 26 Feb. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1976) II. 275 Mrs. Beetham the Profilist..opposite St. Dunstan's. 1833 New Monthly Mag. 39 60 Likenesses..of our host and his lady, taken in fifteen seconds by an itinerant profilist. 1855 A. Cunningham in R. Burns Compl. Wks. 382/1 The kindness of Field, the profilist,..has indulged me with a look at the original, from which the profile..was taken. 1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism II. 208 The profilist who did the silhouette. 1956 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 25 May 12/1 Profilist George Frazier is off to California to write Jeanette MacDonald's life story. 1973 Country Life 29 Nov. 1790/1 In the latter half of the 18th century Mary Wray..attained a proficiency in the art of cutting silhouettes which equalled that of many professional profilists. 2003 Guardian 11 Oct. i. 25/1 ‘There are shoes on her windowsills, shoes on her walls..and cushions to match her tigerskin mules’, writes a profilist who visited her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1793 |
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