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caryatides

caryatides is the plural of caryatid.

caryatides is the plural of caryatide.

Meaning of caryatid

Noun

caryatid (plural caryatids or caryatides)

  1. A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.
    • She wore on the top of her head an upright circular cap that made her resemble a caryatid disburdened, and on other parts of her person strange combinations of colours, stuffs, shapes, of metal, mineral and plant.1901, Henry James, Flickerbridge

Questions about caryatides

What is caryatides the plural of?
Caryatides is the plural of caryatid.

Words near caryatides in the dictionary

  1. caryatic
  2. caryatid
  3. caryatidal
  4. caryatide
  5. caryatidean
  6. caryatides
  7. caryatidic
  8. caryatidlike
  9. caryatids
  10. carybdeid
  11. carybdeids

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