Aspirated consonant. In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of air that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.ne should either feel a puff of air or see a flicker of the candle flame with pin that one does not get with bin. In most dialects of English, the initial consonant is aspirated in pin and unaspirated in bin. The diacritic for aspiration in the International Phonetic Alphabet is a superscript h, â¨â©.
portrait. 1. a drawing, painting, photograph etc of a person.
PORTRAIT-PAINTING IN ANCIENT EGYPT. THE oldest sculptures and the oldest paintings which have come down to our time are the work of ancient Egyptian artists who lived some four thousand years before the Christian era. This would look as though sculpture and painting were twinsâtwins born of the fruitful Nile, and therefore of parallel antiquity.