microportrait
noun 2
Definitions
noun
1
An extremely small portrait.
He takes me into an ascetic bedroom with a large carved bed. A few of his microportraits hang on the newly painted stucco walls.
2
A brief depiction of something.
The film presents a microportrait of life deep in the Amazon jungle.
The highly rhetorical descriptio of Philomena (ll;. 124–204) shows a courtly writer using a classical character to create a flattering microportrait of courtly society.
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