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statuesque

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++stat·u·esque /ˌstætʃuˈesk◂/ adjective  BEAUTIFUL/GOOD-LOOKINGlarge and beautiful in an impressive way, like a statue 高大漂亮的,雕像般端庄优美的 a statuesque woman 一位端庄优雅的高挑女子
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statuesqueHe then lifted the phone to call Peggy Vanderheld, Hauser's statuesque and hard-bitten personal assistant.A dancing person appears as a succession of frozen statuesque attitudes.Brook proceeded to turn Attlee's proposals into the more statuesque prose of the standard Cabinet paper.She is momentarily motionless, statuesque, queenly.They are represented as beautiful, statuesque, shaded men.Pauline towered above her, a statuesque six foot in her high ankle-strapped gold sandals.In the past Gunn has admired the male form in the peak of condition as a statuesque work of beauty.
stat·u·esque adjectiveChineseSyllable
an way, a impressive beautiful Corpus large and in like


statuesque
statuesque /ˌstætʃuˈesk◂/ adjective
large and beautiful in an impressive way, like a statue:
    a statuesque woman


statu·esqueBrE /ˌstætʃuˈesk/ 🔊NAmE /ˌstætʃuˈesk/ 🔊 adjective (formal) (usually of a woman 通常指女性) tall and beautiful in an impressive way; like a statue 又高又美的;雕塑般的 SYN imposing