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Definition of: silhouette
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(sil′·et′) noun
1. A profile drawing or portrait having its outline filled in with uniform color, commonly black: often cut out, as from cardboard.
2. The figure or likeness cast by a shadow; the outline of a solid figure.
—v.t. ·et·ted, ·et·ting To cause to appear in silhouette; outline; make a silhouette profile of. [after Étienne de Silhouette, 1709–1767, French minister of finance; in mockery of the petty economies for which he was notorious]
Abraham Lincoln
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