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Definition of Life-sized
1. Adjective. Being of the same size as an original. "A life-size sculpture"
Definition of Life-sized
1. Adjective. Full scale, as a model that is the same size as what it is a model of. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Life-sized
Literary usage of Life-sized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1899)
"... and its magnificent don-ic gleams like a miniature sun surrounded by four
radiant satellites. Around the walls extends a frieze of life-sized figures. ..."
2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Around the walls extends a frieze of life-sized figures. Yet, beautiful as it
thus appears, its exterior gives only a faint hint contains. ..."
3. Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border by Archibald John Little (1901)
"... gaudily decorated and in good repair, with a life-sized tiger (image) in a
pen and in a small "joss- house " of its own on the left of the entrance. ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"life-sized bust, in seventeenth-century costume, in the possession of ...
life-sized, to waist, unfinished (about 1826), in National Gallery of Scotland. ..."
5. A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Works of Painters Comprising by Frederick Peter Seguier (1870)
"40 19 0 This master was fond of painting sacred subjects and life- sized fleures
of saints. His colouring is agreeable, but his touch is not particularly ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1852)
"The most prominent of his fancy or ideal sculptures are " The Birth of Burns,"
an alto-rilievo ; a life-sized group, " Blind Girls reading the Scriptures ..."
7. Optical Corrections in the Sculpture of Donatello by Robert Munman (1985)
"The "Atys-Amorino" 's destination is also unknown, and, in addition, the figure
is small (though life-sized) and unlikely to have been raised on a high ..."
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