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silhouette

Profile or shadow portrait filled in with black or a dark colour. A common pictorial technique in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it was named after Etienne de Silhouette (1709-1767), a French finance minister who made paper cut-outs as a hobby.

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