sculpturaladj.
/ˈskʌlptjʊərəl/ 1.
a. Of or pertaining to sculpture.
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sculptural1819
photosculptural1870
1819 P. B. Shelley Let. 6 Apr. (1964) II. 93 The moulding of the face modelled with sculptural exactness.
1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. v. 144 Sculptural sketching; exactly correspondent to a painter's light execution of a background.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 319 There will naturally be associated with it those relics of sculptural ribaldry,..to be found in the decorations of old ecclesiastical buildings.
b. transferred.
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1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 59 The wall of the cavity presents none of that sculptural detail which [etc.].
2. Having the qualities of a piece of sculpture.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [adjective] > like sculpture
sculpturesque1835
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1849 Patmore in Quaritch's Rough List Nov. (1899) 123 The poems seem to me to be too sculptural.
1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths II. 362 She is faultlessly made, face and form... It is like sculpture... What I said—she is sculptural.
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