silhouette

Etymology
Borrowed from, from the name of (1709-1767), a French politician. His surname, in turn, is (gallicized), from Ziloeta or Zilhoeta, modern 🇨🇬, from the local plural (see ) stern of.

Noun

 * 1) An illustrated outline filled in with a solid color(s), usually only black, and intended to represent the shape of an object without revealing any other visual details; a similar appearance produced when the object being viewed is situated in relative darkness with brighter lighting behind it; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
 * 2)  The outline of a garment as it appears on the wearer.
 * 1)  The outline of a garment as it appears on the wearer.
 * 1)  The outline of a garment as it appears on the wearer.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: silhoeët
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: siluet
 * Basque: silueta
 * Belarusian: сілуэ́т
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: silueta
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: silhuet
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: silueto
 * Estonian: siluett
 * Finnish:, varjokuva
 * French:
 * Galician: silueta
 * Georgian: სილუეტი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: צְלָלִית
 * Hindi: रूपरेखा,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: scáthchruth
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: сұлба, силуэт
 * Korean: 실루엣
 * Kyrgyz: силуэт
 * Latin: adumbrātiō
 * Latvian: siluets
 * Lithuanian: siluetas
 * Macedonian: силуе́та
 * Malay: siluet
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: silhuett
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: سیلوئت
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: силуѐта
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: silueta
 * Slovene: silhueta
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: hình bóng,
 * Welsh: amlinell, silwét, cysgodlun
 * Yoruba: biribiri, ojiji biribiri

Verb

 * 1) To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette.

Etymology
From, after , a French politician, from.