half-length

half-length (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.

   Coordinate term: full-length

half-length (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.
   • 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 97:

     His portrait, a half-length painted by Howard, was engraved by Vertue, and re-engraved for the Bibliographical Decameron.