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Full length. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Full length The entire length or extension of any object.

1   1.  In advbl. phrase, (at) full length.

2 1709.  Steele & Addison, Tatler, No. 93, ¶ 4. I have … drawn at full Length, the Figures of all sorts of Men.

3 1844.  Dickens, Mart. Chuz., vi. By constructing … a temporary sofa of three chairs … and lying down at full-length upon it.

4 1855.  Singleton, Virgil, I. 47. Of polished marble thou full-length shalt stand.

5   2.  attrib., as full-length figure, portrait, etc. Also ellipt. a full-length.

6 1850.  L. Hunt, Autobiog., II. xiv. 141. A full-length portrait … of a little girl.

7 1894.  A. D. White, in Pop. Set. Monthly, XLIV. 722. A full-length woodcut showing the Almighty in the act of extracting Eve.

8 1896.  Westm. Gaz., 1 May, 1/2. Just above the line, hangs a full-length of the German Emperor.

9 1897.  Daily News, 8 April, 8/1. This is, we understand, the first full-length novel he has written.

10   fig.  1822–34.  Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), I. 296. What may be called a close and full-length portrait [of a disease].

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