sculpturesque
English
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Adjective
[edit]sculpturesque (comparative more sculpturesque, superlative most sculpturesque)
- Like or suggesting sculpture: shapely, statuelike, etc.
- 1864, Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, The Atlantic:
- ...many of the most interesting architectural and sculpturesque structures of the Rocky-Mountain system...
- 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 154:
- In varying degrees the separate units of the trilogy, held together by firm bonds at once dramatic and moral, present in their fullest measure, the tragic art of the Greeks, an art at once dramatic, epic, lyric, musical, and sculpturesque.