sculptress
- noun
- /ˈskʌlptres/
- Archaic
- She has dedicated her life to becoming a renowned sculptress in the art community.
Examples
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In her twenties, she had aspired to achieve immortality as a sculptress; she had even had a flirtation with marble.
Fiction book (1998) -
You never told me you were a sculptress.
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Mary Craig considered herself a sculptress above all else, including being a mother.
Fiction book (2001) -
This is Magda Gross, the sculptress.
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A somewhat overweight sculptress is at work on a statue she names "Hunger."
Academic text (1999) -
You're the sculptress, right?
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She's a sculptress.
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For Jeffrey's aestheticizing eye, the "highest peak of civilization" is precisely the intelligentsia: a painter, a composer, and a sculptress.
Academic text (2000) -
Mary Craig is a talented sculptress known for her exquisite marble sculptures.
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The local gallery is featuring a solo exhibition by the famous sculptress Anna Smith.
Synonyms
A person who makes statues and other art by shaping stone, metal, or wood
A person who makes art by shaping stone, metal or clay
A person who shapes stone, metal, or clay into statues
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sculptress comes from sculpt meaning 'to carve' and the ending -ess meaning 'female'. So a sculptress is a woman who makes sculptures by carving or shaping materials.