Tanagra figurine

American  

[tan-uh-gruh fig-yuh-reen, ‐-reen, tuh-nag-ruh] / ˈtæn ə grə ˌfɪg jəˌrin, ‐ˈrin, təˈnæg rə /

Often Tanagra figure

noun

1. a small terra-cotta statuette produced from the late 4th to the 3rd century b.c. in Tanagra, Boeotia, and found chiefly in tombs.

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Etymology

Origin of Tanagra figurine

First recorded in 1890–95

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Tanagra figurine

Her head and profile are sculpted with the exquisite delicacy of a Tanagra figurine.

From Time Magazine Archive

He began to gaze--now at Pani Otocka and then at the form of Marynia, which resembled a Tanagra figurine, and repeated to himself: "Mother desires to give one of them to me as a wife."

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

You don’t know any of the romance of the Ming Dynasty or how to tell a Tanagra figurine from a plaster-of-paris shepherdess.

From The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

It was opened by a little Greek girl, pretty and delicate as a Tanagra figurine, with very large black eyes.

From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Louis Couperus

It has the daintiness and minute completeness of a Tanagra figurine.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Rupert Hughes