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silhouette

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noun

sil·​hou·​ette ˌsi-lə-ˈwet How to pronounce silhouette (audio)
1
: a likeness cut from dark material and mounted on a light ground or one sketched in outline and solidly colored in
2
: the outline of a body viewed as circumscribing a mass
the silhouette of a bird

silhouette

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verb

silhouetted; silhouetting

transitive verb

: to represent by a silhouette
also : to project on a background like a silhouette
silhouettist noun

Did you know?

Before the age of the photograph, the silhouette, either cut from paper or painted, was the most affordable portrait that could be made. The art enjoyed a golden age in the second half of the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries, when many people collected them. Although silhouettes were well-loved, the man for whom they were named was not: Étienne de Silhouette was France's finance minister under Louis XV and was notorious for both his frugality and his hobby of making cut-paper shadow portraits. The phrase à la Silhouette came to mean "on the cheap," and portraits like the ones he produced were (satirically) bestowed with his name as well.

Choose the Right Synonym for silhouette

outline, contour, profile, silhouette mean the line that bounds and gives form to something.

outline applies to a line marking the outer limits or edges of a body or mass.

traced the outline of his hand

contour stresses the quality of an outline or a bounding surface as being smooth, jagged, curving, or sharply angled.

a car with flowing contours

profile suggests a varied and sharply defined outline against a lighter background.

a portrait of her face in profile

silhouette suggests a shape especially of a head or figure with all detail blacked out in shadow leaving only the outline clearly defined.

photograph in silhouette against a bright sky

Example Sentences

Noun the silhouettes of buildings against the sky The buildings appeared in silhouette against the sky. My piano teacher has a framed silhouette of Mozart on her wall. a portrait of my mother done in silhouette He admired the sports car's sleek silhouette. Verb in the photograph the majestic mountain is strikingly silhouetted against the setting sun See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
The eatery’s logo is a silhouette of a portion of Main Street. Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 16 Sep. 2022 The foreboding silhouette of bare branches and ravens in flight turn bright green in the dead of night due to their special design. Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022 Since 1967, all postage stamps produced by the Royal Mail have featured an embossed silhouette of the side profile of Queen Elizabeth II. Alexander Smith, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2022 The poster shows the silhouette of a man walking down a street — a street that’s definitely not in Phoenix. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2022 These pastel pieces fuse the empire silhouette of the babydoll dress with the bullfighter’s richly bullioned bolero and crop pant, volume coming from origami folds of fabric. Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022 The poster, which dropped on Wednesday, features a silhouette of a character strutting down a cobblestone street, while a large sign indicating Stage 25 looms above. Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2022 No tennis brand would be complete without a polo shirt and Ashe has several that, in place of Lacoste’s crocodile or Fred Perry’s wreath, are emblazoned with a silhouette of the player serving his signature backhand. Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 26 Aug. 2022 He was taken with the idea that the Tham Luang caves were in a mountain range named after Princess Nang Non, and that the silhouette of the mountains looked like a sleeping woman. Jon Burlingame, Variety, 8 Aug. 2022
Verb
The ankles of the Weekender Pants are also elasticized and tapered to master the classic sweatpants silhouette. Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure, 14 May 2022 Gvasalia started with many of Balenciaga’s iconic pieces on his mood board and reconsidered them either through material or slight changes to silhouette. Steff Yotka, Vogue, 8 July 2021 People are silhouetted in a window of an apartment building in Hollywood, where a stay-at-home order remains in effect to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2020 Amalia is constantly calling out to the family’s late Tia Carmen (musician Maria Sandoval-Moreno), who stands silhouetted in a second-floor window wearing a death mask and plucking a violin. Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2020 The outlines of the pillars appear to be very delicate, as they are silhouetted against an eerie blue haze in deep space. Fox News, 8 Apr. 2020 The duck crossed a slight rise, 40 yards away, silhouetted for a quick moment like a mule deer making a break over a ridgeline. T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 10 Mar. 2020 The first segment depicts the climbers checking their equipment by headlamp before the camera pans to the rising sun silhouetting the ridge line ahead. Niha Masih, Washington Post, 9 July 2019 The trees are dark, almost silhouetted, and set off against bright skies that occasionally look juice-filled—red or lemon-colored. Zachary Fine, The New York Review of Books, 8 Feb. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

French, from Étienne de Silhouette †1767 French controller general of finances; perhaps from his ephemeral tenure

First Known Use

Noun

1783, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1876, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of silhouette was in 1783

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