statuary

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Latin statuāria (ars) (“(art) of sculpture”), feminine of the adjective statuārius (“of statues”).

I now use them as ornamental statuary in my garden. — The Patchwork Girl of Oz, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
The eighth was a Milesian statuary, who is mentioned by Polemo. — The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes Laertius
[136] Lysippus of Sicyon was one of the most famous of Greek statuaries. — The Anabasis of Alexander : $b or, The history of the wars and conquests of Alexander the Great, Arrian

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