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n. Architecture A figure of a man used as a supporting pillar.

n. A figure of a man used as a pillar for support.

n. In architecture, the figure of a man performing the function of a column or pilaster to support an entablature, in the same manner as a caryatid. They were called atlantes by the Greeks. See atlantes.

n. a figure of a man used as a supporting column

"Ages, or among the Iroquois and Algonquins, make men dispense with corslets, even when the shield was worn, as in Homer, slung round the neck by a _telamon_ (_guige_ in Old French), belt, or baldric."

column    pillar   

telamones