SILHOUETTE

I. noun Etymology: French, from Étienne de Silhouette died 1767 French controller general of finances; perhaps from his ephemeral tenure Date: 1783 a likeness cut from dark material and mounted on a light ground or one sketched in outline and solidly colored in, the outline of a body viewed as circumscribing a mass , see: outline II. transitive verb (-etted; -etting) Date: 1876 to represent by a ~, silhouettist noun