in silhouette

English

Prepositional phrase

in silhouette

1. As a silhouette.
   • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 59, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 292:

     But even in silhouette Nick thought that the figure seemed to hold some magical stature, as if a fairytale were being whispered into his ear and his mind creating the vision for it.

Translations

as a silhouette

• Italian: di profilo, in controluce

Further reading

• “in silhouette”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.