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statuette - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

statuette (plural statuettes)

• A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc.
  • ✤ […] may be discovered not far from a charming statuette of Queen Alexandra, and there is also the figurette of King George’s elder brother.¹
  • ✤ Some statuettes are not monochrome but represent characters. That is why they are called nanofigures.²

Etymology

Borrowed from French statuette, from statue f +‎ -ette (feminine of the diminutive suffix -et).³ By surface analysis, statue +‎ -ette (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌstætjuˈɛt/, /ˌstætʃuˈɛt/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• Rhymes: -ɛt

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Footnotes

1. 1921, The Graphic, volume 103, page 444: ↩

2. 2019 July 3, Filip, “LEGO Microfigures, Minifigures, and Nanofigures”, in Minifigures Blog ‎${}^{[1]}$, archived from the original on 26 September 2021: ↩

3. “statuette, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. ↩

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