Dignified sculpture with girl embracing queen (10)

I believe the answer is:

statuesque

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'dignified' is the definition.
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'sculpture with girl embracing queen' is the wordplay.
'sculpture' becomes 'statue' (statue is a kind of sculpture).
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'girl embracing' becomes 'es' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'queen' becomes 'qu' (abbreviation for queen).
'es'+'qu'='esqu'
'statue' going around 'esqu' is 'STATUESQUE'.

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(Other definitions for statuesque that I've seen before include "imposing" , "(Of a woman) tall and dignified" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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