Definition of "statuary" [stat•u•a•ry]

• Statues considered as a group. (noun)
• The art of making statues. (noun)
• A sculptor. (noun)
• Of, relating to, or suitable for a statue. (adjective)

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• "A block north of this statuary is The Church of the Holy Name, which had a rummage sale."
• "For more on Shelley's taste in statuary, see Stephen Larrabee, English Bards and"
• "As in statuary to the artist the partly undraped figure is suggestive only of beauty, free from indelicacy, so to the saint the personal excellencies of Jesus Christ, typified under the ideal of the noblest human form."