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half-length definition

half·-length (-leŋkt̸h′)

adjective

  1. of half the full length
  2. showing a person from the waist up: said of a portrait

noun

a half-length portrait

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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