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Caryatid   Listen
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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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"Caryatid" Quotes from Famous Books



... puffy eyes. And there he was due to sit, sodden and replete, until the fashionable equipages began to flash past. He'd probably see his wife driving with Mrs. Ferrall or with Miss Caithness, or perhaps with some doddering caryatid of the social structure; and he'd sit there, leering with gummy eyes out of the club windows, while servants in silent processional replenished his glass from time to time, until in the early night the trim little shopgirls flocked out into the highways in gossiping, ...
— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers



Words linked to "Caryatid" :   column, pillar



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