silhouette

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A silhouette of a skate.

[edit] Etymology

From French silhouette.

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[edit] Noun

silhouette (plural silhouettes)

  1. An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
    I could see a silhouette of a figure looking out from the window, but I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman.

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silhouette (third-person singular simple present silhouettes, present participle silhouetting, simple past and past participle silhouetted)

  1. To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.

[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

Named from Étienne de Silhouette, a French politician.

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  • IPA: /silwɛt/
  • (file)

[edit] Noun

silhouette f. (plural silhouettes)

  1. silhouette
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