silhouette
Other forms: silhouetted; silhouettes; silhouetting
A silhouette is dark shadow, like a silhouette of a person standing under a street lamp, or a drawing that shows only the shape of an object.
A silhouette, pronounced "sil-ooh-ET," can be mysterious. After all, you can only see the shape of the person or object. So, it's fitting that the word's origin is a little mysterious, too. It was coined for Etienne de Silhouette, a French finance minister. One theory is that Silhouette decorated his chateau with the kind of dark outline drawings that now bear his name.
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a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform colortype of:drawinga representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines
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an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow)
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represent by a silhouette
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project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouettetype of:projectproject on a screen
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