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Statuary


STATUARY, noun [Latin , a statue; to set.]

1. The art of carving images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture.

[In this sense the word has no plural.]

2. One professes or practices the art of carving images or making statues.

On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from the poets.