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Caryatid   Listen
noun
Caryatid  n.  (pl. caryatids)  (Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... disregarded at home. Bashfulness and depression had regained their hold of the elder lad almost as the younger one entered, and in the changes of position consequent upon the new arrival, he fell into the background, and stood leaning, caryatid fashion, against the mantelshelf, without uttering a word, while Owen, in a half-recumbent position on an ottoman, a little in the rear of Miss Charlecote and her tea equipage, and close to Phoebe, indulged in the blithe loquacity ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge



Words linked to "Caryatid" :   pillar



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