whole-length
Example Sentences
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It was to be a whole-length in water-colours, like Mr. John Knightley’s, and was destined, if she could please herself, to hold a very honourable station over the mantelpiece.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
To the former is attributed the large whole-length portrait at Hampton Court of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, in a suit of bright red.
From Six Centuries of Painting by Davies, Randall
The figure, which was whole-length, and of the size of life, was painted; and might be of the fourteenth century.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
What chiefly attracted the public notice, however, was the whole-length portrait which he painted of his friend and patron Admiral Keppel.
From Six Centuries of Painting by Davies, Randall
At the right and left of the Virgin are St. Peter and St. John, St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Dominic, whole-length figures strongly individualized and differentiated.
From Artists Past and Present Random Studies by Cary, Elisabeth Luther
