STATUARY, noun [Latin , a statue; to set.] 1. The art of carving images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture. [In this sense the word has no plural.] 2. One professes or practices the art of carving images or making statues. On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from the poets.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI