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Definition of Full-length

1. Adjective. Representing or accommodating the entire length. "A full-length portrait"

Definition of Full-length

1. Adjective. Not shortened; complete and uncut ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of clothing) Covering the full height of the body ¹

3. Adjective. (arts) (''of a painting or sculpture'') Representing the full height of the body ¹

4. Adjective. At full stretch, requiring the whole body. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Full-length

Literary usage of Full-length

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap (1834)
"Sally's yearly receipts at various periods—his business decreases in 1819—loss by a drawing from West's " Healing in the Temple"—full-length of Commodore ..."

2. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical by Michael Bryan (1886)
"Mary de' Medici . Massey, General Maurice, Prince. Full length ... Full length Northumberland, Algernon Percy, Earl of. his Countess, and their Child. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Their hair was worn at full length in a queue. Their weapons were the orphaned children also were sometimes killed by the elders. ..."

4. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"He pretends to no discoveries, has taken no brief for or against the character it is his duty to reproduce, has set up no full-length portrait on the ..."

5. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"After much perplexity and uneasiness, I wrote to Dr. Johnson, stating the case, with all its difficulties, at full length, and earnestly requesting that he ..."

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