statuette

Meaning

Noun

  • A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc.

Origin

  • Borrowed from French statuette, from statue + -ette.

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