Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Extending from end to end.
- Of full length; exhibiting the whole figure.
- noun A portrait or statue exhibiting the whole figure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Representing the whole figure; -- said of a picture or statue.
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Examples
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My whole-length picture in the Vandyke taste, * that used to hang in my own parlour, as I was permitted to call it, I bequeath to my aunt Hervey, except my mother should think fit to keep it herself.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Your drawings and your pieces are all taken down; as is also your whole-length picture, in the Vandyke taste, from your late parlour: they are taken down, and thrown into your closet, which will be nailed up, as if it were not a part of the house, there to perish together: For who can bear to see them?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Then here is my last, "-- unclosing a pretty sketch of a gentleman in small size, whole-length --" my last and my best -- my brother,
Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001
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It was to be a whole-length in water-colours, like Mr. John Knightley's, and was destined, if she could please herself, to hold a very honourable station over the mantelpiece.
Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001
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The principal feature, or, rather mass of features, which enchain the beholder, is a whole-length portrait of a gentleman (_par excellence_) seated in a luxuriating, Whitechapel style of ease, the envy, we venture to affirm, of every omnibus cad and coachman, whose loiterings near this spot afford them occasional peeps at him.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 Various
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[3] We may add that still fewer have seen the characteristic whole-length portrait of "_Harry_," _the waiter_, which has been placed over the fireplace, by subscription among the frequenters of the room.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829 Various
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There is a whole-length with a decorative head-dress, and a landscape background.
Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment Thomson Willing
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We here conclude our notice of the bard of Woodbridge; and should this brief account excite the interest of our readers to become better acquainted with this "living author," we refer them to the whole-length portrait painted by himself, and held up to view in every page of his poems.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827 Various
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Again, there is a whole-length showing her about to descend some steps to a lawn, her superb shoulders and neck bare, and her hair highly bedecked with feathers.
Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment Thomson Willing
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The picture we give of her is from a whole-length by Gavin
Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment Thomson Willing
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