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Meanings of portrait miniature in English

Russian
портретная миниатюра
Portuguese
pintura em miniatura
Spanish
retrato miniatura
Catalan
retrat miniatura
Wikidata

Very small painting.

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        портретная миниатюра
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        Examples for "miniature"
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        This term was again the term; school still the world in miniature.
        The Longest Journey
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        For the same reason it contains practically all social relations in miniature.
        Sociology and Modern Social Problems
        3
        Grenades in the Halo: Reach beta are miniature weapons of mass destruction.
        Wired
        4
        So far, only one of the miniature water worlds has been sold.
        Wired
        5
        Early the following morn the pocketbook was restored; everything save the miniature.
        The Rector of St. Mark's
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        To this autumnal limning, the following spring picture may be a fitting accompaniment:-
        Old Portraits and Modern Sketches / Part 1 from Volume VI of The...
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        Finally, a horned moon began to climb above the horizon, limning it with light.
        Wizardborn
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        Hilarius crimsoned, he was weary of limning ever with blue and gold, he faltered.
        The Gathering of Brother Hilarius
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        In this art of limning or painting in water colours, his artists are wonderfully expert.
        A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume...
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        New-Sirius and his Companion, with light limning their human shapes, trudged across the green ground.
        Dogsbody
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        He'd seen the locket she carried containing a miniature portrait of her son.
        The hunchback assignments
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        I enclose the will and a miniature portrait of the aristocrat, de Lescure.
        La Vendée
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        On the opposite wall hung the miniature portrait of her father.
        The Woman in White
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        She pointed to a miniature portrait, hanging above the mantelpiece.
        The Two Destinies
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        It contained a miniature portrait of a man-Frenchwork, by an excellent pupil of Meissonier.
        The Case of Richard Meynell
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        The art of illumination declined as the art of miniature painting progressed.
        Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages / A Description of Mediaeval ...
        2
        Lost money during war, so ceased miniature painting in England to come here.
        The new yorker
        3
        In the summer I took lessons in miniature painting on ivory.
        A Little Girl of Long Ago; Or, Hannah Ann / A Sequel to a Little...
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        Sain and Augustin between them held the sceptre of miniature painting under the Empire.
        Poor Relations
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        The stage is very small, and the scenery a kind of coarse miniature painting.
        Venetian Life
        Usage of portrait miniature in English
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        A small portrait miniature adorned the center of the gold-and-enameled necklace -anancestor, no doubt.
        The Book of Life
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        Recently she writes me: I have departed from the ordinary portrait miniature, and am now painting what I call picture miniatures.
        Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twe...
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        But it opens to reveal five jewel-like, individually framed, oval family- portrait miniatures embedded in velvet.
        The Irish Times
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