Caryatides
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(n. pl.) Caryatids.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
a name given to statues of women, applied instead of columns, in Grecian architecture as at the Erechtheum at Athens.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
Draped female figures surmounting columns and supporting entablatures; the corresponding male figures are called Atlantes.
