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statuesque, a.|ˌstætjuːˈɛsk|
[f. statue n. + -esque, after picturesque.]
Having the qualities of a statue or of sculpture.
a1834Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1849) I. 71 Their productions were, if the expression may be allowed, statuesque, whilst those of the moderns are picturesque. 1849Thackeray Pendennis xvii, An image of statuesque piety and rigid devotion. 1855Smedley H. Coverdale xlvii, He had always admitted her statuesque grace. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. v. ii. (1872) II. 71 Statuesque immovability of posture. 1891N. & Q. Ser. vii. XII. 99 The more reserved and statuesque formulæ of the Western Churches. 1905Sir F. Treves Other Side of Lantern ii. xxx. (1906) 190 The statuesque native soldiers who stand as sentries.
Hence statuˈesquely adv., statuˈesqueness.
1833Coleridge Table-t. 1 July, Euripides..embraces within the scope of the tragic poet many passions..which Sophocles seems to have considered as incongruous with the ideal statuesqueness of the tragic drama. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 802 Hold, as it were, a deprecating hand, Statuesquely, in the Medicean mode. 1886G. Allen Maimie's Sake xxiii, He had never before seen her..look so..statuesquely beautiful. 1888Harper's Mag. Aug. 330 Each lithe figure..has a statuesqueness and a luminosity impossible to paint in words. |