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karyatid

karyatid is the alternative form 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

Forms of karyatid

pluralkaryatids

Questions about karyatid

What is karyatid the alternative form of?
Karyatid is the alternative form of caryatid.

Words near karyatid in the dictionary

  1. Karwoskis
  2. Karwowski
  3. Karwowskis
  4. Kary
  5. kary-
  6. karyatid
  7. karyatids
  8. karydopita
  9. karyenda
  10. Karyn
  11. Karyne

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