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/statjʊˈɛsk/
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/statʃʊˈɛsk/
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statjʊˈɛsk
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Adjective
Resembling or characteristic of a statue.
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He was by no means a bad hero to look at, if such a thing were needed. His face was pale, melancholy, statuesque—and his large enthusiastic eyes, suggested a story and a secret—perhaps a horror.
We went out by his gate into the road, and there we made a minute examination of the statuesque passing traffic. The tops of the wheels and some of the legs of the horses of this char-a-banc, the end of the whip-lash and the lower jaw of the conductor — who was just beginning to yawn — were perceptibly in motion, but all the rest of the lumbering conveyance seemed still.
Immobile; motionless.
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Both Cripps and Limpet were struck statuesque with a sudden apprehension of what was happening in Cripps's room, and Cripps, with a professional knowledge of the gloomy nature of Uncle Tinfish's eye, could feel it taking in the situation, including the conscientious nude, with dreadful intensity.
I have known him to maintain this statuesque pose for as long as fifteen minutes[.]
Elegantly tall, graceful, and attractive.
Usage- of a woman
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Christy Turlington is a statuesque supermodel famous for her fashion ads.
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The grand, handsome, and much younger Mrs. Nettles, […] has the nose and cheekbones of a Cherokee and is so black and statuesque in her muscularity and boneyness that she seems carved by an ax from an effulgent vein of coal.
They were among West Germany’s first pop-culture exports after World War II, and their statuesque features made them a paparazzo’s dream as they emerged, one after the other, from a limousine at film premieres and fashion shows.
Adjective
of size and dignity suggestive of a statue
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suggestive of a statue
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