ritratto

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noun

A picture; a portrait.

OriginItalian ritratto →
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Meanings

nounritratto (plural ritrattos or ritrattoes)

plural ritrattos · plural ritrattoes

  1. obsoleteA picture; a portrait.

    Here are the Ritrattoes of the Family; amongst others some by Titian, Giorgion, &c […]

    1722, Jonathan Richardson, An Account of Some of the Statues, Bas-reliefs, Drawings and Pictures in Italy, &c, page 344
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    A little beyond this Vestibule […] is what they call the Painter's Chamber, fill'd from Top to Bottom, with the Ritrattos of all the most famous Men in that Art […]

    1738, John Breval, Remarks on Several Parts of Europe, page 147

    ——'tis more like a ritratto of the shadow of vanity, than of VANITY herself——of the two; resembling rather a faint thought of transient applause, secretly stirring up in the heart of the composer, than a gross mark of it, coarsely obtruded upon the world.

    1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Origin

  1. Italianritratto
  2. Englishritratto

Borrowed from Italian ritratto. Doublet of retract, retrait, and retreat.

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