sculpturesque

[skuhlp-chuh-resk]

adjective

1. suggesting sculpture.

   the sculpturesque beauty of her face.

sculpturesque

/ ˌskʌlptʃəˈrɛsk /

adjective

1. resembling sculpture

Other Word Forms

• sculpturesquely adverb
• sculpturesqueness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sculpturesque¹

First recorded in 1825–35; sculpture + -esque

Example Sentences

A high-quality cooking island can cut an impressive, sculpturesque figure in your kitchen.

From Seattle Times

It was chiefly of white velvet, whose trailing heaviness blent with purple lengths of the same lustreless and sculpturesque fabric.

From Project Gutenberg

In two narrow spaces at each side of the head, are introduced the crocus and celandine, and the snowdrop and violet, treated with a rare union of natural beauty and sculpturesque method and subordination.

From Project Gutenberg

They aim, with unflinching consistency, at a realization of beauty so abstract that the forms by which it is interpreted to the imagination are almost wholly sculpturesque.

From Project Gutenberg

By the choice of this posture the artist was enabled to model his figure on magnificent sculpturesque lines.

From Project Gutenberg