Meanings
plural sculptrices
- A woman who sculpts; a female sculptor; a sculptress.
2001, Larissa Golden Brown and Martin John Brown, Demystifying Grant Seeking: What You Really Need to Do to Get Grants (Jossey-Bass; →ISBN, 9780787956509), page ? Wendy is a 29-year-old mixed media sculptrix with an MFA from Port University.
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The Honourable Anne Seymour Damer, sculptrix, was born in London, of parents the most illustrious[.]
1826, James Silk Buckingham, editor, The Oriental Herald, and Journal of General Literature, volume X, page 114[F]ather had the pleasure of driving Mrs. Hill and her sister afterwards to a meeting of the Livingstone Memorial Committee in George Street, where we had cake and wine, and he, as Member for the city, proposed a vote of thanks to the gifted sculptrix in a beautiful little speech which came warm from his heart, and which she seemed much to appreciate.
1888, John Beveridge MacKie, The Life and Work of Duncan McLaren, volume II, T. Nelson and sons, page 79
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latinsculptrīx
- Englishsculptrix
Learned borrowing from Latin sculptrīx. By surface analysis, sculpt + -trix.
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