Wiktionary
alt. A painting of a living object that is stationary. n. A painting of a living object that is stationary.
Usage examples of "still-life".
Ethelmer, downstairs, alone, at the Clavier, hair loos'd, apostrophizes a Thermometer, throughout which the Listener may imagine a series of idiotic still-life Views, first of the Thermometer, registering some low temperature, then of Ethelmer, singing to it, then back to the Thermometer again, and so forth.
Sylvan idyll at nightfall, still-life with deranged dot-com refugee and brown office furniture.
I have incarnated that which I-need to rationalize: Verily-not the ever present portraiture of experience to satisfy the ovine: No obvious allegory of asses-thinking God: No still-life group of empty bottles and old maids commonplaces: Nor the gay-tragedy of song.
The decor looked as if it had been assembled in one day by someone with respect for convention, a tight deadline, and a nervous budget: middling antique copies, equine prints under glass, the kind of still-life paintings you can pick up at sidewalk sales.