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Picture

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A model, or beau-ideal, as, He is the picture of health; A perfect picture of a house. (Latin, pictūra.)

The Picture. Massinger has borrowed the plot of this play from Bandello of Piedmont, who wrote novelles or tales in the fifteenth century.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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