pourtraict

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pourtraict (plural pourtraicts)

  1. Obsolete spelling of portrait.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Picture of Dolphins”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 5th book, page 235:
      […] for beſide the expreſſions of Ovid and Pliny, their Pourtraicts in ſome ancient Coynes are framed in this figure […].
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