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Definition of Portresses
1. portress [n] - See also: portress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portresses
Literary usage of Portresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"They were not only portresses of heaven, but goddesses of the seasons : the idea
... It is obvious that these have nothing in common with the portresses of ..."
2. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"They were not only portresses of heaven, hut goddesses of die seasons: the idea
uf the Horse was therefore changed, but not so much so that the latter ..."
3. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (1887)
"Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker with her basket
on her back. All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1831)
"HOURS ; with Homer, goddesses of the air and the winds, the portresses of heaven.
... They were not only portresses of heaven, but goddesses of the seasons: ..."
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