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sculptress

[ skuhlp-tris ]

noun

  1. a woman who practices the art of sculpture.


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Gender Note

See -ess.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sculptress1

First recorded in 1655–65; sculpt(o)r + -ess
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Example Sentences

Olivia arrives for other reasons; she has run away from her abusive sculptress mother to retrace the path her Buddhist dentist father walked before disappearing from her life.

It could well have been otherwise, as the elderly sculptress – a true believer since deceased – had a tendency to confer bulging eyes on her subjects as a sign of their pious fervour.

She doesn’t consider herself “a sculptress like Louise Nevelson” but has always made objects to keep herself amused.

The bust was designed by Belgian sculptress Natalie Lambert and located near a street in Brussels named after her, Rue Edith Cavell.

From BBC

“I know a very attractive sculptress there named Augusta Savage.”

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