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n. Architecture A supporting column sculptured in the form of a draped female figure.

n. A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural element, used as a support for entablature.

n. A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

n. pl. caryatids, caryatides (-idz, -i-dēz). In architecture, a figure of a woman dressed in long robes, serving as a column to support an entablature or to fill any other office of a column.

Pertaining to or of the form of a caryatid; caryatic.

n. a supporting column carved in the shape of a person

"Sometimes it may be called a caryatid, which is, as I understand it, a cruel device of architecture, representing a man or a woman, obliged to hold up upon his or her head or shoulders a structure which they did not build, and which could stand just as well without as with them."

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