sculpture

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

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From Middle English sculpture, from Old French sculpture, from Latin sculptūra (“sculpture”), from sculpō (“to cut out, to carve in stone”).

Gringoire was devoutly examining its exterior sculptures. — Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo
Let the Acropolis, its sculptures, its landscape, wait. — A Victor of Salamis, William Stearns Davis
The “old masters” (especially in sculpture,) fairly swarm, there. — The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain

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