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Statuette

//ˌstætjuˈɛt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small statue, usually a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta etc.

    "[…] may be discovered not far from a charming statuette of Queen Alexandra, and there is also the figurette of King George's elder brother."

  2. 2
    a small carved or molded figure wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French statuette, from statue f + -ette (feminine of the diminutive suffix -et). By surface analysis, statue + -ette (diminutive suffix).

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