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caryatid Arch.|kærɪˈætɪd|
Pl. usually in L. form caryatides; also caryatids, and (erron.) 8 careatides, 9 caryatidæ.
[ad. L. caryātid-es, a. Gr. καρυᾱ́τιδες, pl. of Caryātis, καρυᾶτις a priestess of Artemis at Caryae (καρύαι a village in Laconia), also a female figure as below.]
A female figure used as a column to support an entablature. Also attrib., as in caryatid figures.
1563Shute Archit. B iij a, Ymages, figured like women..named Cariatides..for pillers. 1679Confinement, a Poem 9 Alas, the Order solely is, That of the captiv'd Cariatides. 1776R. Chandler Trav. Greece (1825) II. 86 The entablature is supported by women, called caryatides. The Greeks..destroyed Carya, a city which had favoured the common enemy, cut off the males, and carried into captivity the women, whom they compelled to retain their dress..in a state of servitude. 1804Ann. Rev. II. 351 To place like caryatids our perfection in our supportance. 1844Disraeli Coningsby vii. viii. 275 Caryatides carved in dark oak. 1846Ellis Elgin Marb. II. 39 Caryatid figures. 1847Tennyson Princ. iv. 183 Two great statues, Art And Science, Caryatids, lifted up A weight of emblem.
Hence caryˈatidal, caryatiˈdean, caryaˈtidic adjs., like, or of the nature of, a Caryatid.
1835Gentl. Mag. III. 192/2 Cariatidal statues. 1865E. C. Clayton Cruel Fort. I. 143 Caryatidean attitudes. 1881O'Donovan Merv Oasis xxxvii. (1882) II. 126 Caryatidic appendages of the architecture of my residence. |