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half-length

NOUN
  1. a portrait showing the body from only the waist up
ADJECTIVE
  1. abridged to half its original length
  2. representing only the upper half of the body
    a half-length portrait

How To Use half-length In A Sentence

  • Saint Wynn was a half-length winner over his stablemate in the Skywalker.
  • Venetian painters had pioneered the poetic narrative scene involving two or three half-length figures, but in the "Gypsy Fortune-Teller" and the "Cardsharps" both 1595, Caravaggio gave the genre a streamlined, streetwise spin—Mr. Graham-Dixon calls it "low-life drama. The Misery Memoirist
  • Be used as a women, my love man, respect them, say what man of greedy selfish, say what ascending half body and descend a half-length need, the man is on the hoof in fact and really very not easy.
  • The presence, in the Gallery's reconstruction, of half-lengths of St Paul and, questionably, of St Andrew is hard to explain.
  • David offers to massage her tense day away and Anna tries to move her hair to the side - and she could were she not wearing a half-length cut over her actual hair.
  • Oberlin's painting is now installed at the National Gallery, Washington, as the focal point of a miniature exhibition, "Larger Than Life," paired with the gallery's recently acquired ter Brugghen "Bagpipe Player" 1624, a robust half-length figure that exemplifies the secular side of the artist's practice as brilliantly as "Saint Sebastian" does the religious side. An Artist of Dual Allegiances
  • The presence, in the Gallery's reconstruction, of half-lengths of St Paul and, questionably, of St Andrew is hard to explain.
  • Three-quarter or half-length sleeves enhance the summer appeal of skirts and pants in fashion prints.
  • Good things come in small formats to start the show—a tiny oval "Portrait of a Man" (circa 1627–30) by a follower of Franz Hals, a miniature half-length self-portrait by Gerrit Dou (circa 1645). Dutch Masters Delight in Paris
  • Originally made as a three-part series for French TV, it is five-and-a-half hours long in its full form (though a half-length feature is also on release in the UK), exhaustively researched and often exhilarating to watch, as we track the fledgling revolutionary, charmingly portrayed by Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramírez, through countless countries, attacks, hijackings and escapes, to his eventual arrest in Sudan in 1994. Carlos director Olivier Assayas on the terrorist who became a pop culture icon
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