sculp
1 Americanverb (used with object)
abbreviation
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sculptor.
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sculptural.
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sculpture.
Etymology
Origin of sculp
First recorded in 1525–35, sculp is from the Latin word sculpere to carve
Example Sentences
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For last October's Manhattan sculp ture festival, Artist Claes Oldenburg hired two professional gravediggers to shovel out a coffin-sized hole in Central Park, then fill it up again.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the same way, Picasso's wire constructions of the late '20s lead to Giacometti and many another later sculp tor; that darting, inventive energy was always at play.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as no one can say for sure whether Braque or Picasso did the first cubist painting, so no one can be sure whether Moore or Hepworth first did this kind of open sculp ture.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a good day a sealer can sculp 120 seals.
From Time Magazine Archive
I hear they sculp and paint for a living.
From Infelice by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
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