half-length

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Adjective

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half-length (not comparable)

  1. Half the normal length.
  2. (art, of a portrait, a sculpture or a photograph) Depicting only the upper half of the subject.
    Coordinate term: full-length

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Noun

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half-length (plural half-lengths)

  1. (horse racing) Half the length of a horse.
  2. A portrait or photograph that depicts only the upper half of the subject.
    • 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 97:
      His portrait, a half-length painted by Howard, was engraved by Vertue, and re-engraved for the Bibliographical Decameron.