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sculptresses

sculptresses is the plural of sculptress.

Meaning of sculptress

Noun

sculptress (plural sculptresses)

  1. (dated) A female sculptor.
    • Nor may vve here omit to celebrate for the glory of the Sex, Propertia de Roſſi, a Florentine Sculptreſs; vvho having cut ſtupendious things in Marble, put forth alſo ſome rare things in Stampi to be encountred amongſt the Collections of the Curious.1662, J[ohn] Evelyn, “Of the Invention and Progresse of Chalcography in Particular; together with an Ample Enumeration of the Most Renowned Masters, and Their Workes”, in Sculptura: Or The History...
    Synonyms:
    sculptrix

Questions about sculptresses

What is sculptresses the plural of?
Sculptresses is the plural of sculptress.

Words near sculptresses in the dictionary

  1. sculptor
  2. sculptors
  3. sculptour
  4. sculptours
  5. sculptress
  6. sculptresses
  7. sculptrices
  8. sculptrix
  9. sculpts
  10. sculpturable
  11. sculptural

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