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In portraiture, a side view of the face. The profile was used on ancient coins and medallions, and became particularly popular in portraiture of the early Renaissance period. A silhouette shows only the dark shape and outline of a person's profile.
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Nor, in profile, does this wondrous brow diminish; though that way viewed, its grandeur does not domineer upon you so.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
For the most part, the English and American whale draughtsmen seem entirely content with presenting the mechanical outline of things, such as the vacant profile of the whale; which, so far as picturesqueness of effect is concerned, is about tantamount to sketching the profile of a pyramid.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
It is not impossible that this conceit occurred to Hawthorne before he had himself seen the Old Man of the Mountain, or the Profile, in the Franconia Notch which is generally associated in the minds of readers with The Great Stone Face.
The Great Carbuncle by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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