STATUES

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statues

plural of statue

Noun

statues

A children's game in which the players have to stand still without moving.

Source: Wiktionary


STATUE

Stat"ue, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. statua (akin to stativus standing still), fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand.]

1. The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion. I will raise her statue in pure gold. Shak.

2. A portrait. [Obs.] Massinger.

Stat"ue, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Statued; p. pr. & vb. n. Statuing.]

Definition: To place, as a statue; to form a statue of; to make into a statue. "The whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth." Feltham.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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MALLET

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The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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