sculpturesque
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of sculpturesque
Explanation
Things that are sculpturesque look like sculptures. You might describe your beautiful new laptop, with its sleek lines, as sculpturesque. The adjective sculpturesque is a good way to talk about things that resemble statues or sculptures. Your elaborate sandcastle could be sculpturesque, and the ancient rocks along the coast are also sculpturesque. A beautiful person, an elaborate collage, or your new car could all be described as sculpturesque. A more common word with the same meaning is sculptural, and both have the same Latin root, sculpere, "to carve or engrave."
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He paused with a neoclassical manner which combined the flowing, controlled line of Raphael and a sculpturesque mass and weight new to painting.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have seen and studied the best models in this country and abroad, but none of them has possessed the perfection of sculpturesque beauty found in William Wright.
From Time Magazine Archive
What the Italians call the “eyes of the folds,” are particularly beautiful in woollens, and lend themselves to sculpturesque art.
From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford
Her eyes avoided his, and for one unguarded instant the full sculpturesque lips were tense and rigid.
From The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan
A worthy memorial to Shakespeare will not satisfy the just working of the commemorative instinct, unless it take the sculpturesque and monumental shape which the great tradition of antiquity has sanctioned.
From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Sir Sidney Lee
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