caryatid
noun
a sculptured female figure used as a column.
caryatides
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pluralof caryatid.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Louis XIV. had gold embroidered caryatides fifteen feet high in his apartment.
From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
There are two beautiful caryatides by Vittoria and rich mural work by Battista Franco and De Moro.
From Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting
First examine the caryatides who support the central structure.
From Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 by Edward Singleton Holden
Such was the apostrophe with which the caryatides of the Café Prosper hereafter greeted the Captain, whose visits became rarer day by day.
From Ten Tales by Walter Learned
The sphinxes that crouched in the avenues, the caryatides at the palace doors, the gods on their pedestals, had an expression enigmatic but identical.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
