The word "statuette" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word statuette to refer to a small, usually sculpted, figure. For example: "I carved a wooden statuette of an elephant as a gift for my niece."
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statuette
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A small statue, usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like.
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Last year Hilary Swank was spotted eating at Astro Burger in west Hollywood with her Oscar statuette standing on the fast food joint's counter.
The best actor statuette has Eddie Redmayne's name on it, for his performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
Harry Styles was late on stage to collect the statuette.
In 1993, he sold his statuette for $60,500, (£39,400) saying he needed the money.
They made it fly to Calcutta (now Kolkata) by pretending that the bar of soap inside the statuette they carried of a laughing Buddha was a bomb.
In half an hour, your correspondent saw only a trickle of customers and just four items being sold: a pencil, a wind-up plastic frog, a quilt and a golden statuette of a soldier.
Most of Mr Nasrallah's men have served in the Lebanese army or Syrian pro-government paramilitary groups.Above the fireplace in Mr Nasrallah's opulent villa, wedged between crucifixes and a statuette of the Virgin Mary sits a framed portrait of his unrelated namesake, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
Among the new treasures still being uncovered is a voluptuous ivory statuette of Aphrodite .The big question now," says Dr Ergec, "is whether the tragedy will be repeated".
It became easy to dupe him with a fake gold ring or an ivory statuette of a bare-breasted Minoan goddess.
Schoolchildren in Nanjie learn Chairman Mao's essays by heart, and every household has a Mao statuette on display in the living room.Chinese leaders recognise that farmers have had a rough time.
Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Oscar for best director and Sandra Bullock got a statuette as best actress (she had received the less-coveted "Razzie" award as worst actress the night before).
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