sculpture
/ˈskʌlpt͡ʃɚ/ noun B1- A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).
- More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.
- Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
- The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.
Plural sculptures
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Van Schuylight Suffolk-Jones—came out to his waiting motor-car, wrinkling a contumelious nostril, as usual, at the Italian renaissance sculpture of the soap palace’s front elevation.
Here, in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy City merchants, we found the sculpture works for which we searched.
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