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Etienne de Silhouette
French · 1750s
"a stingy finance minister's name"
France's notoriously stingy finance minister, whose name became a byword for anything cut-rate or simplified
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silhouette
English · 1800s
"a dark outline against a lighter background"
settled as the word for a simple dark outline portrait, cheap to produce compared to a painting
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