"portraitor" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From portrait + -or. Compare Middle English portratoure, portreitour, portretour, porturature, purtrator, purtreiture (“one who draws or paints”).",
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          "ref": "1851, F. Clinton Barrington [pseudonym; Joseph Holt Ingraham], Conrado de Beltran: or, The Buccaneer of the Gulf. A Romantic Story of the Sea and Shore., Boston, Mass.: […] Frederick Gleason, […], page 36, column 2",
          "text": "His face was oval—not unlike in shape and beauty that which portraitors represent that of Edward VI, England’s youthful monarch; and the face of this youth was princely.",
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          "ref": "1858 July, Δ Φ [pseudonym], “Late Words touching the National Academy Exhibition”, in The Knickerbocker, volume LII, number 1, page 82",
          "text": "As nearly all the articles we have seen about the Exhibition have commented chiefly upon the landscape and fancy-department of Art, we have thought best to say a little more about Portraits, (of which it may be somewhat unfashionable to take much notice,) not a few being specimens worthy of special attention. / ‘Among the Portraitors, if you will allow the word, we should undoubtedly place Elliott at the head of the first rank. The specimens he has given us this year are admirable—full of truth and full of life.",
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          "ref": "1902 May 9, W Thomas, “Back-Yard Portraiture”, in The Photographic News. The Journal for Amateur Photographers. A Weekly Record of the Progress of Photography., volume XLVI, number 332, London: […] [T]he Proprietors, […], page 292",
          "text": "Professional photographers do their portrait work under conditions which are beyond the pale of the majority of workers, and for the latter to really derive satisfaction from portrait work it is necessary to put on one side all conventions which have become the stock property of professional portraitors.",
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          "ref": "1930 November 10, William Brady, “Another Medicinal Use for Photographer’s Hyposulphite of Soda”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LXIII, number 148, Atlanta, Ga., page four, column 3",
          "text": "You get all set for the shot, and then at the last second the photographer cracks one calculated to bring just a natural smile to your too set expression, and when the proofs of the crime come to light there you are, with the same old cynical grin which has already cost you so many friends. Honestly, going to the photographer for a new cut of my map is a lot worse than visiting the dentist—I don’t mind a visit to the dentist when I’m all square with him. But these portraitors come in handy when you have an encounter with poison ivy. One of the very best remedies for the relief of the burning, itching skin inflammation is photographer’s fixing solution—hyposulphite of soda, which should be applied on bandages or compresses.",
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        {
          "ref": "1956, Athene, volume 16, page 70",
          "text": "Romantic portraitors flourished in Greece at the turn of the century. Outstanding portrait painters were: Xydias, Rizos, Lembesis, Panorios, Economou, Gyzis, Nicephorus Lytras, Procopiou, Triantaphyllides.",
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          "ref": "1992, Aurora’s Whole Realms Catalogue, TSR, Inc., page 73",
          "text": "We offer brushes for every application: 4-inch wide brushes (4 gp) for painting clapboards, 1-inch and 1-inch wide brushes (5 gp each) for sign painting, and 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and hairline brushes (3 gp) for portraitors and painters.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Henry Gould, Stubborn Grew, 2nd edition, Alephoebooks",
          "text": "Square Henry fills the frame, but he won't square this with heaven, no matter how many royal portraitors request his fanny sitting on the stool of a bleeding Empire.",
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        "One who makes portraits."
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        "(rare) One who makes portraits."
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          "text": "Professional photographers do their portrait work under conditions which are beyond the pale of the majority of workers, and for the latter to really derive satisfaction from portrait work it is necessary to put on one side all conventions which have become the stock property of professional portraitors.",
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          "ref": "1930 November 10, William Brady, “Another Medicinal Use for Photographer’s Hyposulphite of Soda”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LXIII, number 148, Atlanta, Ga., page four, column 3",
          "text": "You get all set for the shot, and then at the last second the photographer cracks one calculated to bring just a natural smile to your too set expression, and when the proofs of the crime come to light there you are, with the same old cynical grin which has already cost you so many friends. Honestly, going to the photographer for a new cut of my map is a lot worse than visiting the dentist—I don’t mind a visit to the dentist when I’m all square with him. But these portraitors come in handy when you have an encounter with poison ivy. One of the very best remedies for the relief of the burning, itching skin inflammation is photographer’s fixing solution—hyposulphite of soda, which should be applied on bandages or compresses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, Athene, volume 16, page 70",
          "text": "Romantic portraitors flourished in Greece at the turn of the century. Outstanding portrait painters were: Xydias, Rizos, Lembesis, Panorios, Economou, Gyzis, Nicephorus Lytras, Procopiou, Triantaphyllides.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Aurora’s Whole Realms Catalogue, TSR, Inc., page 73",
          "text": "We offer brushes for every application: 4-inch wide brushes (4 gp) for painting clapboards, 1-inch and 1-inch wide brushes (5 gp each) for sign painting, and 3/4, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and hairline brushes (3 gp) for portraitors and painters.",
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          "ref": "2010, Henry Gould, Stubborn Grew, 2nd edition, Alephoebooks",
          "text": "Square Henry fills the frame, but he won't square this with heaven, no matter how many royal portraitors request his fanny sitting on the stool of a bleeding Empire.",
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