archaistic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The superb piece, previously unpublished, displays archaistic features.
From New York Times • May 28, 2010
From some such feeling came the Pre-Raphaelite movement of our own day and the archaistic movement of later Greek sculpture.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
Another important document is the Black Stone, a four sided prism with archaistic writing.
From Assyrian Historiography by Olmstead, A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck)
Sometimes it returns upon its footsteps, and revives some antique form, as happened in the archaistic movement of late Greek Art, and in the pre-Raphaelite movement of our own day.
From Intentions by Wilde, Oscar
All these sculptures exhibit the same peculiar style of affected archaism, known as archaistic.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
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