What's the difference between statary and statuary?
Statary
Definition:
(a.) Fixed; settled.
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Statuary
Definition:
(n.) One who practices the art of making statues.
(n.) The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture.
(n.) A collection of statues; statues, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The park contains many fine trees and handsome stands of huge bamboos, and sprinkled throughout it are assorted buildings in various states of repair, such as a theatre, a small museum of Roman statuary, and the enchanting House of the Owls (Casa delle Civette), art nouveau in style, with a roof in multicolured tiles, blues, red, turquoise, and housing some beautiful Roman stained-glass works.
(2) The Alliance urged a return to statuary incomes policy.
(3) There have been protests outside some of California’s most heavily visited Missions, petitions , open letters written both to the pope and to California’s political leaders , and even an attempt by members of the state legislature to have Serra replaced as one of California’s two representative figures in Washington’s National Statuary Hall.
(4) A flood of statuary has flowed messily into the space between the two, mostly celebrating Ancient Macedonia and the early 20th-century anti-Ottoman nationalist insurgents of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (the current ruling party considers itself their successor), as well as sundry medieval kings and folk heroes.
(5) We will be able to compare delicate textiles woven in China with others made in the forests of Borneo... we may admire the superb statuary of ancient Egypt, then walk a few yards and be astonished and moved by the great masterpieces of sculpture from sub-Saharan Africa."
(6) The landscape will be changed into what Thomas Mann called “the towering marble statuary of the high Alps in full snow”, in his novel The Magic Mountain .
(7) As the showcase capital of Pyongyang, with its amusement parks, bronze statuary and countless marble-laden pavilions so amply demonstrates, North Korea has a tradition of diving into lavish, monumental projects, no matter their relevance to larger economic conundrums such as producing reliable electricity or adequate food.
(8) Thomas Mann, who visited Davos in the early 20th century, marvelled in his novel The Magic Mountain at “the towering marble statuary of the high Alps in full snow”.
(9) The actors joined a dispute which has simmered ever since enormous chunks of the Parthenon's statuary were removed by Lord Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman empire, in the early 19th century.