单词 | statuette |
释义 | statuetten. 1. A small statue or figurine; a statue that is less than life-size. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [noun] > statue > small statue sigilluma1637 imagileta1661 sigil1738 statuette1738 figurette1850 figurine1854 1738 J. Breval Remarks Several Parts Europe: Tours since 1723 I. 90 A small Statuette of an Auriga. 1843 Fraser's Mag. 28 103 In every space..stood a little statuette of marble. 1861 G. G. Scott Gleanings Westm. Abbey 49 These niches contained thirty statuettes of different personages. 1940 B. Leach Potter's Bk. iii. 62 The famous Parian ware composed of two parts of feldspar to one part of china clay..was chiefly used for unglazed statuettes. 1973 ‘A. Hall’ Tango Briefing xx. 251 The carved teakwood statuette..was obviously a god. 2009 D. Bergner Other Side of Desire (2010) i. 44 The shelves and buckets in the gift shop were filled with statuettes of cowboys and Native American chiefs. 2. spec. A trophy or award in the form of a small statue, esp. an Oscar (Oscar n.3 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > winning, losing, or scoring > [noun] > winning or win > awards and prizes garland?a1513 plate1639 cupc1640 dog plate1686 gold medal1694 gold cup1718 sweepstake1773 trophy1822 bronze medal1852 shield1868 statuette1875 pot1885 team honours1895 letter1897 silver medal1908 school colour1913 gold1945 bronze1960 silver1960 Fed Cup1965 1875 N.Y. Times 7 Apr. 2/6 Col. Gildersleeve, in behalf of the American ‘team’ in the late International match, next presented..a handsome bronze statuette. 1922 Pop. Mech. Sept. 491/2 A statuette, representing a mermaid and wrought in solid gold, is the prize to be won by America's most beautiful bathing girl. 1955 Life 18 Apr. 61 In earlier years, the handing out of gold-plated statuettes to the industry's annual favorites was a pretty tame, folksy affair. 1990 Vanity Fair Dec. 220/1 Looking into the camera, she held up the statuette. 2011 T. Stovall in T. Price-Thompson et al. My Blue Suede Shoes 126 He wrestles the golden Emmy statuette from my hand and sets it gently back onto the mantlepiece. Compounds General attributive and objective. ΚΠ 1849 Times 9 Mar. 5/1 Lucile Grahn..drops into a beautiful pose, in which is idealized one of those picturesque attitudes which, painters and statuette-makers tell us, belong to brigand life. 1852 Water-cure Jrnl. May 113/1 There are mantles of classic statuette designs. 1866 Reader 19 May 500 ‘The Chase’..is life size, but ‘The Stag at Bay’..is little more than statuette size. 1941 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 16 Feb. 6/2 Frank Capra once declared that an Academy award is worth $100,000 to an actor or director... But the records show that statuette winners rise and fall right along with the rest of the less-honored pack. 1949 Billboard 9 Apr. 145/2 (advt.) Statuette lamp sensation! Beautiful hand cast metal lamps. 2007 New Yorker 17 Dec. 65/1 She wrote her dissertation on pre-Sotadean statuette vases. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1738 |
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