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sculpturesque en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English sculpture French -esquebor. English -esque English sculpturesque From sculpture + -esque.

Meanings

1. Like or suggesting sculpture: shapely, statuelike, etc.
   • ...many of the most interesting architectural and sculpturesque structures of the Rocky-Mountain system... 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, The Atlantic:
   • In varying degrees the separate units of the trilogy, held together by firm bonds at once dramatic and moral, present in their fullest measure, the tragic art of the Greeks, an art at once dramatic, epic, lyric, musical, and sculpturesque. 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 154:

Forms

Translations (3)

bg изваян (like or suggesting sculpture) · fi veistosmainen (like or suggesting sculpture) · bg пластичен (like or suggesting sculpture)