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figurine
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A figurine (a diminutive form of the word figure ) or statuette is a small statue that represents a human, deity or animal , or in practice a pair or small group of them. Figurines have been made in many media, with pottery , metal, wood, glass, and today ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Alarmed, she had hurried to it, to notice immediately that a small jade figurine was missing. ▪ Among the items scientists have unearthed are four-inch clay figurines depicting men wearing hip and shoulder pads. ▪ As was the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small, ornamental human representation in pottery or other material work," 1854, from French figurine (16c.), from Italian figurina , diminutive of figura , from Latin figura "shape, form, figure" (see figure (n.)). Figurette is from 1850, from Italian.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small carved or molded figure [syn: statuette ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Figurine \Fi`gu`rine"\ (? or ?), n. [F., dim. of figure.] A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette , which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.
Usage examples of figurine.
Gaultry was tempted to take the figurine of the Prince out of her pocket, to take charge of Benet herself or even give him back his own will.
When the coranto ended, they all bowed and kissed one another, formal as china figurines, random and sensual as bending grass.
He picked up the ceramic figurine of a fancily dressed dancing lord and lady from an end table next to Beheim.
She was just Joanna, cool and humorous, yet sympathetic and serious, and as pretty as a Majolica figurine.
The mirth subsided as Drizzt took out the figurine and bade Guenhwyvar farewell, promising to call the panther back as soon as he and Catti-brie were on the trails once more, heading back to Mithril Hall.
There were three glass shelves with rows of netsukes, little figurines carved of ivory.
Chelsea porcelain figurine sold over a nosh bar counter in a Suffolk village.
On a trouve dans le sacellum de la villa les figurines de terre cuite qui y avaient ete mises par des mains pieuses.
Dahah Shier courtship figurine and set it down on the low table in front of her.
New Guinea, an African figurine, a baffling shaped painting in the form of a tesseract, and three magnificent little crystallines.
Enormous, glass-fronted cabinets standing from floor to ceiling, jammed with porcelains, chinaware, glassware, and figurines, lined the walls, while the ceiling was all but invisible behind rows of hanging buckets, pots, pans, basins, metalware, and jugs.
Hetherton, speaking diffidently, transferred his gaze from the Cnossos figurine to a somewhat faded photogravure of the Hera of Samos.
Liza glanced at the tasseled and skirted furniture, the nooks and crannies stuffed with figurines, the presumptuous canopy of state that hung over her bed.
Each unbinding brought its own small and whirling cloud of lights, motes of magic that faded away to leave behind the long-stored enchanted item they had brought from otherwhere: coffers and decanters, figurines and bracelets, scepters and goblets, bowls and lamps, all of them small and beautiful of making.
Grandma Yoder would have laughed at the concept of a ceramic goose with a bow around its neck, and she would have viewed as absolutely idolatrous the little Amish boy and girl figurines that are so popular in gift shops.