Carved or shaped a material like stone, wood, or clay into an artistic form or figure.
From Latin 'sculpere' meaning to carve. The word entered English through French in the 1400s and refers to the art of creating three-dimensional forms by removing material.
Sculptors call themselves 'carvers' of stone but 'modelers' of clay—because you remove stone but add clay—yet we use 'sculpt' for both, showing how one word absorbed two completely different techniques!
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