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