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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin statuāria (ars) (“(art) of sculpture”), feminine of the adjective statuārius (“of statues”).[1]
Noun
statuary (uncountable)
- The craft of making statues.
- Statues considered collectively.
2012, Ruth Ramsden, chapter 9, in Blue Murder at the Pink Parrot, London: Cutting Edge Press, →ISBN, page 137:Simply on aesthetic grounds I can almost applaud the Victorians’ fig obsessed Bowdlerisation of Greek and Roman statuary.
Translations
statues considered collectively
Etymology 2
From Latin statuārius (“maker of statues”).[1]
Noun
statuary (plural statuaries)
- A person who makes or deals in statues.
Translations
person who makes or deals in statues
Etymology 3
From the noun or the Latin adjective statuārius (“of statues”).[1]
Adjective
statuary (comparative more statuary, superlative most statuary)
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of statues.
1655, [Hamon L’Estrange], The Reign of King Charles: An History Faithfully and Impartially Delivered and Disposed into Annals, London: E. C. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, , page 64:He [Francis Bacon] lyeth interred in the Church of St. Michael at St. Albans in Hartfordſhire, and hath there a fair ſtatuary monument erected for him of white Marble at the coſt of Sir Thomas Meautis, his ancient ſervant, who was not neerer to him living then dead: […]
1862, James B Everhart, “Women”, in Miscellanies, West Chester, Pa.: Edward F. James, page 32:There is the lady’s own book, complete without a teacher—showing how the waist should be boddiced; the parasol handled; the statuary attitudes; the Parisian curtsy; the prettiest toss of the head, and swing of the train.
2004, Keith A. Livers, “Lev Kassil’: The Soccer Match as Stalinist Ritual”, in Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., →ISBN, page 168:Characteristically, the photo series ends with the trainer having successfully contorted the boy’s body into a classical, statuary pose, even as the boy forces a pained smile for the camera.
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