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Etymology
“Picture” - c.1420, from L. pictura “painting,” from pictus, pp. of pingere “to make pictures, to paint, to embroider,” (see paint). The verb, in the mental sense, is from 1738; pictures “movies,” short for moving pictures, is from 1912. Picture post-card first recorded 1899. Phrase every picture tells a story first attested 1906, in an advertisement...