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noun Photography.
a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
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Origin of portrait lens
First recorded in 1860–65
Words nearby portrait lens
Port Phillip Bay, Port Pirie, portrait, portrait flask, portraitist, portrait lens, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, portraiture, portray, portrayal, portrayed
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