Statuette
[stætjʊ'et;-tʃʊ-] or [,stʃʊjʊ'ɛt]
Definition
(n.) A small statue; -- usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like. Cf. Figurine.
Edited by Linda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Small statue, little image.
Editor: Vicky
Examples
- See here, I've bought a statuette for you! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In the friendliest manner he is making himself quite at home with his back to the fire, executing a statuette of the Colossus at Rhodes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There came back to him one, a statuette about two feet high, a tall, slim, elegant figure from West Africa, in dark wood, glossy and suave. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In vain she fluttered the leaves of books, or made statuettes in clay. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was not more than six feet high, and the top was adorned with statuettes in marble, ranged at regular distances one from the other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Their statuettes are naked. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Trevor