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noun - a sculptured female figure used as a column
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| a stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building. |
| A stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building. |
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| A Caryatid ( kair-ee-AT-id; Greek: , plural: ) is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek term karyatides literally means "maidens of Karyai", an ancient town of Peloponnese. Karyai had a famous temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis in her aspect of Artemis Karyatis: "As Karyatis she rejoiced in the dances of the nut-tree village of Karyai, those Karyatides, who in their ecstatic round-dance carried on their heads baskets of live reeds, as if they were dancing plants". |