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sculptural, a.|ˈskʌlptjʊərəl|
[f. sculpture n. + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to sculpture.
1819Shelley Lett. Prose Wks. (1888) II. 287 The moulding of the face modelled with sculptural exactness. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps v. §8. 144 Sculptural sketching exactly correspondent to a painter's light execution of a background. 1864Burton Scot Abr. 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. transf.
1898Allbutt's 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.
1849Patmore 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. |