caryatid
noun
a sculptured female figure used as a column.
caryatids
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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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Brought together from three separate museum collections, they are lined up in a row, Modernist caryatids of a farewell portal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
In it, she and Cardi B dress in Grecian goddess-inspired dresses, dance in front of classically inspired statuary, wear headdresses that evoke caryatids and transform into Grecian vases.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2021
He sat in a ostentatious Greek-style hall bedecked with four caryatids, the draped female figures used in columns — a style first seen in Delphi 2 ½ millennia ago.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2019
He called them the "caryatids of that great and marvellous epoch that was ours".
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2016
These marble women are called caryatids, which orginally referred to the priestesses of Artemis at Caryae.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
