Why this word is great
STATUESQUE — [Adjective] Resembling a statue, especially in being impressively tall, dignified, graceful, and well-proportioned. From French statuesque, from statue (from Latin statua, from statuere "to set up, erect") + the suffix -esque ("in the style or manner of"). Unlike "lanky," which implies a gaunt and often awkward elongation, or "petite," which cherishes a diminutive and slender delicacy, statuesque commands a presence of solid, harmonious proportion. It is the columnar stillness of a cypress against an evening sky, the poised immobility of a heron in a shallow stream, or the way late light halts on a cheekbone as if on polished marble—a beauty that feels less beheld than inherited, a quiet monument to time's patient, vanishing craft.