Lexic.us

Definition of Half-length

1. Noun. A portrait showing the body from only the waist up.

2. Adjective. Representing only the upper half of the body. "A half-length portrait"

3. Adjective. Abridged to half its original length.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Half-length

half-heartedly half-hitch half-holiday half-hour half-hourlong half-hourly half-inch half-inched half-inches half-inching

half-inferior half-integer half-integers half-intensity half-jacket half-length (current term) half-life half-light half-line half-lives

half-long vowel half-mast half-measure half-metal half-metallic half-monthly half-moon half-moons half-naked half-nephew

Literary usage of Half-length

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Historical Library of Andrew Dickson White, First President by Andrew Dickson White, George Lincoln Burr (1889)
"41, which gives the year 1556; closely trimmed. I7th cent.; 13.6x9.5; half-length portrait, facing to right, the hands resting upon a book ; superscription ..."

2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1899)
"Half length; directed and facing to the right, looking to the front ... Half length ; directed to the front, facing and looking slightly to the right ..."

3. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap, Frank William Bayley, Charles Eliot Goodspeed (1918)
"His employment increased, and he painted a half length of Robert Walsh, and other distinguished men sought him, though out of the city. ..."

4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1898)
"Half length; directed, facing, and looking to the right ; oval frame within a ... Oval half length; directed and facing to the left, looking to the front ..."

5. Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Lionel Strachey (1903)
"2 half-length pictures of her, one hand showing, 1 Countess Orloff. ... 1 Countess Strogonoff, with her child, 1 Count Strogonoff, half-length. ..."

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