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单词 sculptor
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sculptorn.

Brit. /ˈskʌlptə/, U.S. /ˈskəlptər/
Etymology: < Latin sculptor, agent-noun < sculpĕre to carve, engrave, sculpture. Compare French sculpteur, Spanish escultore, Portuguese esculptor, Italian scultore.
1. One who practises the art of sculpture; chiefly, an artist who produces works of statuary in stone (esp. marble) or bronze.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraver
sculptor1634
under-engraver1656
engraver1705
scratcher1736
scraper1763
print cutter1766
block-cutter1859
burinista1864
point-draughtsman1872
cutter1880
print trimmer1892
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > sculptor or carver
imagerc1400
carverc1405
graver1430
cutter1572
scraper1591
insculptor1598
sculptor1634
sculptress1662
sculpturist1689
sculpturer1732
chiseller1883
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 59 A Pegasus: an inuention of the Sculptor, to expresse his workemanship.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sculptor, a graver or carver.
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 209 Here are many Sculptors both for Ivory and Wood.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 25 Sept. (1837) II. 87 His sculptors could have made no other figure so proper for that purpose as this statue.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 231 Jacopo della Quercia, a sculptor whose works are now to be sought in Siena, Lucca, and Bologna.
1893 Academy 13 May 413/1 The fronts of the mansion were decorated with statues by skilled sculptors.
2. An engraver. Obsolete.
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1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus ii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 110 Sculptors in their strongest shadows, after this order do draw their double Haches.
c1700 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) I. 21 He brought over Winceslaus Hollar, the Sculptor.
3. Astronomy. (See quot. 1852.)
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the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Sculptor
sculptor1852
1852 J. R. Hind Astron. Vocab. 52 Sculptor, an abbreviation for Apparatus Sculptoris, one of the southern constellations introduced by Lacaille.
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