statuesque

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Resembling or characteristic of a statue.

   • He was by no means a bad hero to look at, if such a thing were needed. His face was pale, melancholy, statuesque—and his large enthusiastic eyes, suggested a story and a secret—perhaps a horror.
2. 2

   Elegantly tall, graceful, and attractive.

   • Christy Turlington is a statuesque supermodel famous for her fashion ads.
   • The grand, handsome, and much younger Mrs. Nettles, […] has the nose and cheekbones of a Cherokee and is so black and statuesque in her muscularity and boneyness that she seems carved by an ax from an effulgent vein of coal.

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