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.
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The show, in sum, is a mirror of modern French sculp ture.
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The froglike pfifltriggi handled building and sculp ture.
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Sculptor Bufano promptly challenged Pegler to make good on his offer to sculp something better.
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I live chiefly among men who write, and paint, and sculp, and so forth.
From Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling
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