51Թ

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sculpturesque

[ skuhlp-chuh-resk ]

adjective

  1. suggesting sculpture:

    the sculpturesque beauty of her face.



sculpturesque

/ ˌʌʃəˈɛ /

adjective

  1. resembling sculpture
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌܱٳܰˈܱ, adverb
  • ˌܱٳܰˈܱԱ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ܱtܰ·ܱl adverb
  • ܱtܰ·ܱn noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sculpturesque1

First recorded in 1825–35; sculpture + -esque
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Example Sentences

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A high-quality cooking island can cut an impressive, sculpturesque figure in your kitchen.

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It was chiefly of white velvet, whose trailing heaviness blent with purple lengths of the same lustreless and sculpturesque fabric.

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In two narrow spaces at each side of the head, are introduced the crocus and celandine, and the snowdrop and violet, treated with a rare union of natural beauty and sculpturesque method and subordination.

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They aim, with unflinching consistency, at a realization of beauty so abstract that the forms by which it is interpreted to the imagination are almost wholly sculpturesque.

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By the choice of this posture the artist was enabled to model his figure on magnificent sculpturesque lines.

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