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silhouette

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1. silhouette - Noun

2. silhouette - Verb

Meaning

A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.

To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing. Sarah Silverman

.. a yellow square, a red and blue avenue, an Eiffel tower with a camouflaged silhouette.... that would all be lit up at night, instead of fireworks. [a proposal to Trotsky of a 'polychrome Moscow', for the 1937 exhibition]. Fernand Léger

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette. Timothy Levitch

If you will observe, it doesn't take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow on the wall; And he who in our daily sight Seems but a figure mean and small, Outlined in Fame's illusive light, May stalk, a silhouette sublime, Across the canvas of his time. John Townsend Trowbridge

I've never really had a waist. Even when I was at my slimmest, my silhouette was very straight up, straight down. But I have learnt how to give myself a bit of waist by optical illusion. For this, bring on the belts. Twiggy

The thing I always try to remember is that feet are attached to the leg, and that you must prolong the silhouette. The shoe elongates the leg and does it discreetly. The goal is to get people to look at a woman's legs. It's all about the leg. No, it's not about the leg. It's about the woman. Christian Louboutin

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