Silhouette
(3 syl.). A black profile, so called from Etienne de
Silhouette, Contrôleur des Finances, 1757, who made great savings in
the public expenditure of France. Some say the black portraits were
called Silhouettes in ridicule; others assert that Silhouette devised
this way of taking likenesses to save expense.
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