statuesque
adjective
like or suggesting a statue, as in massive or majestic dignity, grace, or beauty.
statuesqueness
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a word derived from
statuesque.
Example Sentences
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Many of the city’s statues have a certain, well, statuesqueness that begs to photographed.
From Washington Post
Between him and the pilot-house, softly veiled by its moonlight shadow, stood in unconscious statuesqueness on the front overhang of the texas roof, between the towering chimneys, Ramsey.
From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable
The coldness and statuesqueness with which she has been reproached could not now be discovered by the most adverse critic.
From Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 by Various
Commodus, looking her up nd down, mentally contrasted her easy pose and the rosiness of her smiling face with the tense statuesqueness and austere, almost grim countenances of her three colleagues.
From The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White
The other horse was standing with complete and entirely unconcerned statuesqueness on the low bank which bounded the lane on his other side.
From If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
