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1. Portraits

   Portraits (So Long Ago, So Clear) is a 1996 compilation album of works by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis. The album features some of the most-renowned Vangelis' solo work, as well as songs from Jon & Vangelis, his collaboration with Yes vocalist Jon Anderson.

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1. Portraits

   Works consisting of graphic representations, especially of the face, of real persons, usually posed, living or dead. They are pictures whose purpose is the portrayal of an individual or group of individuals, not pictures which merely include people as part of an event or scene. (From Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II, p540, 1995)

How to pronounce portraits?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say portraits in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of portraits in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of portraits in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of portraits in a Sentence

1. Photographer Ken Hermann:

   All the pictures are shot within noon and 3 p.m. when you have the sun straight from above, which gives (the portraits) this very hard light, and then I just used some studio light as a fill to make it a little bit more soft.

2. Nancy Locke:

   [Google] may be able to alleviate the problem by adding more works of art from outside Europe and North America, part of the problem perhaps can’t be fixed, though, in that it was largely wealthy Europeans who commissioned portraits in the centuries prior to our own, and these are the works of art that are popping up in the app for white people who try it.

3. Jessica Clark-Bojin:

   I would say to anyone who wants to try their hand at pie portraits to make sure they have all their tools ready to go and their dough pre rolled out and chilling in the fridge, then you can work quickly and keep your pastry nice and light tasting out the other side.

4. Rita Rudner:

   I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

5. Alexander Donskoy:

   I wanted to draw attention to how Putin is taken in Russia: like a superhero. So I wrote on portraits 'Putin is superhero'.

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