Definition of "half-length"

half-length

adjective
not comparable
1. Half the normal length.
2. (art, of a portrait, a sculpture or a photograph) Depicting only the upper half of the subject.
noun
plural half-lengths
1. (horse racing) Half the length of a horse.
2. A portrait or photograph that depicts only the upper half of the subject.
  Quotations
  His portrait, a half-length painted by Howard, was engraved by Vertue, and re-engraved for the Bibliographical Decameron.
  1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 97