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caryatids

caryatids is the plural of caryatid.

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 caryatids

What is caryatids the plural of?
Caryatids is the plural of caryatid.

Words near caryatids in the dictionary

  1. caryatide
  2. caryatidean
  3. caryatides
  4. caryatidic
  5. caryatidlike
  6. caryatids
  7. carybdeid
  8. carybdeids
  9. carychiid
  10. carychiids
  11. carying

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