statuette

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Beside it had stood the little Bubastis statuette ... but the statuette was there no longer CHAPTER IX THE VELVET CURTAIN This gets me well out of my depth, Mr. Addison," said Inspector Gatton We were standing in the garden at a point near to my open study window.

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  1. noun A small statue.

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  • All that remained of it was a little statuette, and it stood in what looked like a pool of glowing red rock Pell's body sprawled near by, twisted in ghastly fashion. —  039 - The Seven Agate Devils
  • Doc interposed The satan statuette, the bottle of liquid with the camphor odor, and the note directing you to the movie location," the girl replied, dully That satan statuette!" —  039 - The Seven Agate Devils
  • He is free enough in accusing Hortensius of having accepted a beautiful statuette, an ivory sphinx of great value. —  Life of Cicero
  • They had failed to connect the two most outstanding events of the afternoon-the sky-high bidding for a worthless-looking statuette, and the target practice between the two bidders. —  148 - The Terrible Stork
  • The statuette, and I am sure the significance of this did not escape you, bore the fingerprints of the accused man We shall never know with any certainty the cause of the ill-feeling between these two men. —  EQMM, Sep - Oct 2006
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  1. French, diminutive of statue, a statue: see statue.
 

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/stætʃjuˈɛt/
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