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still life
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still life as in:  a still life painting

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  • She's taken some of the still lifes, Wringer, Toaster, Deadly Nightshade, and Three Witches.†  (source)
  • I'd finally loaded my camera and tentatively taken a few pictures, just objects and still lifes, no faces yet.†  (source)
  • Donald is a moderately talented painter of small still lifes of single, everyday objects: an egg, a cup, a comb, suspended against brightly colored backgrounds.†  (source)
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  • I was just wondering if it was a landscape, a portrait, or a still life.†  (source)
  • Landscapes, still lifes, she considered a change of pace.†  (source)
  • So there was still life like this somewhere!†  (source)
  • The world's greatest artists have seen fit to paint still lifes from time to time.†  (source)
  • What happened was that a few days after they split, I was in the Art Room with some other girls, working on a still life.†  (source)
  • Landscapes, still lifes, animals—a fellow like me shrinks from absolutely nothing.†  (source)
  • fly wife is an artist and I thought perhaps she might want them for a still life, but when I got home with the dogs—the eggs somehow unbroken, cradled in my pack bouncing on the rig—I saw Hawk sitting on her clutch of eggs.†  (source)
  • You'll have to find a way to make those still lifes interesting.†  (source)
  • His lunch was spread neatly before him like a still life, and I opened my paper bag, extracting a sandwich.†  (source)
  • Apart from the still lifes, what I'm showing is mostly figurative, although there are a couple of constructions made from drinking straws and uncooked macaroni, and one called Silver Paper.†  (source)
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common meaning

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There's still life in her now though, in the rapid rise and fall of her chest, the low moan escaping her lips.  (source)
still life = the two words in their literal sense that does not refer to art
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