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Noun
a fine example of late Renaissance statuary
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Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 May 2025
This home became the touchstone for my personal selection and reference for my own life in terms of quality of furniture, objects, art, statuary, and fabric and of my deep association with everything chinoiserie.
—Ralph Rucci, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2025
Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
In the movies, Black characters were jolly statuary — hoisting luggage, serving food, tending children — meant to decorate a white American’s dream.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
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Noun
Early physique photographers took classical statuary as their inspiration and Hollywood glamour portraits as their models for lighting and setting.
—Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 May 2025
This home became the touchstone for my personal selection and reference for my own life in terms of quality of furniture, objects, art, statuary, and fabric and of my deep association with everything chinoiserie.
—Ralph Rucci, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
The adjoining primary bath has a mosaic-patterned marble floor, statuary white marble walls and a seven-foot-long vanity with a quartz top.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
In the movies, Black characters were jolly statuary — hoisting luggage, serving food, tending children — meant to decorate a white American’s dream.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
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“Statuary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/statuary. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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