marble
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- noun
- /ˈmɑːrbl/
:
escultura en mármol
- Right now I am looking at a marble sculpture of a woman.
- a marble statue
- a marble sculpture
- carved from marble
Examples
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Statues are made of marble, not clay.
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Nishi's artwork will center on the marble figure of Columbus at the column's crown.
Blog text (28) -
You know a sculptor that can cut marble faster than I can?
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It's the rest of us who put the marble sculpture of celebrity on its pedestal.
Blog text (16) -
The Sleek Boy, as we called him, had been chiseled out of Italian marble.
Fiction book (1999) -
The detailed busts are surrounded by rough-hewn marble at the top of the sculpture.
Blog text (28) -
Behind him, Phil is chipping away at a small hunk of marble, sculpting a very lovely cherub.
Fiction book (1993) -
Excavations at Cyrene have unearthed a wealth of marble sculptures, dating from the sixth century B.C. to the third century A.D.
Academic text (2005) -
From 1412, Nanni di Banco's marble statue of Saint Philip filled the tabernacle (Fig. 6).
Academic text (2004) -
The museum recently acquired a stunning marble sculpture of a famous Greek philosopher.
Synonyms
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1.0
A carved figure, often life-size, of a person or animal made from stone
Compounds
- Indian
A large tree from Asia with hard wood marked by dark and light swirling lines
- Specialized
An inherited condition in which bones become very dense and hard, reducing the space inside bones for making blood cells
- Specialized
A hard stone used for decoration with smooth bands and a little see-through, shiny look
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Marble for a carved statue comes from the name of the stone; artists carved figures from marble, so the statue itself became known simply as a 'marble'.