English
Portraitgate
From portrait + -gate.
Formed from portrait + -gate
Latin trahō ‘to drag’
Latin prōtrahō ‘to drag, pull, draw or bring forth or out (to…’
Middle French portraire ‘portray’
Middle French portraict
English portrait
Today it means
name A 2009 controversy that occurred when art galleries in Dublin displayed two oil paintings depicting Brian Cowen, Taoiseach of Ireland, in the nude.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Portraitgate