silhouette
See also: Silhouette and silhouetté
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French silhouette, from the name of Étienne de Silhouette (1709-1767), a French politician. His surname, in turn, is (gallicized) (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Basque, from Ziloeta or Zilhoeta, from zulo (“hole, cave”).
Pronunciation
Noun
silhouette (plural silhouettes)
- 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. [mid 19th c.]
- 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.
Translations
representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color
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Verb
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- To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette. [late 19th c.]
External links
- silhouette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Étienne de Silhouette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From Silhouette, after Étienne de Silhouette, a French politician, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Basque.
Pronunciation
Noun
silhouette f (plural silhouettes)
Verb
silhouette
- first-person singular present indicative of silhouetter
- third-person singular present indicative of silhouetter
- first-person singular present subjunctive of silhouetter
- third-person singular present subjunctive of silhouetter
- second-person singular imperative of silhouetter
External links
- “silhouette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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