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plural caryatids or caryatides
A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. quotations examples
She wore on the top of her head an upright circular cap that made her resemble a caryatid disburdened, and on other parts of her person strange combinations of colours, stuffs, shapes, of metal, mineral and plant.
1901, Henry James, Flickerbridge