Silhouette

Etymology
Borrowed from, from the name of (1709-1767), a French politician. His surname, in turn, is (gallicized), from Ziloeta or Zilhoeta, from.

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.
 * I could see a silhouette of a figure looking out from the window, but I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: silhoeët
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: silueta
 * Belarusian: сілуэт
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: silueta
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: silhuet
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: silueto
 * Estonian: siluett
 * Finnish:, varjokuva
 * French:
 * Galician: silueta
 * Georgian: სილუეტი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: צללית
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingue: siluette
 * Irish: scáthchruth


 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 실루엣
 * Latin: adumbrātiō
 * Latvian: siluets
 * Lithuanian: siluetas
 * Macedonian: силуета
 * Malay: siluet
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: silhuett
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: силуета
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: silueta
 * Slovene: silhueta
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * 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.
 * 2) * 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 35):
 * Scores of coconut-shell fires blazed with their characteristic glaring white flame, throwing grotesque shadows on the brown thatched huts, dancing fairylike shimmerings among the domes of coconut fronds, casting ghostly reaches of light through the adjacent graveyards, and silhouetting the forms of pareu-clad natives at work cleaning their fish or laying them on the live coals to broil.

Etymology
From, after , a French politician, from.