Atlantes

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Architecture Plural of atlas2.
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  • n. Plural form of atlas.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun-plural. Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See caryatides.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In architecture, figures or half figures of men used in place of columns or pilasters, to support an entablature.
    • Word Usage
    "Here was revealed, beyond a splashing fountain guarded by recumbent lions, up a hillside, densely covered with dark confiners, a baroque grotto with exuberantly rusticated arches and athletic atlantes."
    Variant
    telamones    caryatides   
     
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