whole-length

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English

Adjective

whole-length (not comparable)

  1. (art) Depicting the whole figure.
    • 1693, A Catalogue of the Pictures in the Collection of Mr. Lanckrinck, Lately Deceased; , London: t Mr. Smith’s and at Mr. Basset’s and at Mr. Lanckrinck’s , page 7:
      A whole-length Picture of a Woman, by Van Dyck
    • 1730, Edward Wright, Some Observations Made in Travelling Through France, Italy, &c. in the Years 1720, 1721, and 1722, London: Tho. Ward and E. Wicksteed, , page 299:
      In the Great Gallery is a moſt admirable Ritratto of Cardinal Spada, a whole-length Figure, ſitting; by Guido.
    • 1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 12, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817  [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, page 170:
      [A]s Lady D. was not there, Charlotte had leisure to look about, & to be told by Mrs P. that the whole-length Portrait of a stately Gentleman, which placed over the Mantlepeice, caught the eye immediately, was the picture of Sir H. Denham—[…]

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Noun

whole-length (plural whole-lengths)

  1. (art) A portrait or statue depicting the whole figure.

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