atlantesn.
/atˈlantiːz/ Architecture.
With plural agreement. Figures or half-figures of men used instead of columns to support an entablature.
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1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
1835 Penny Cycl. III. 25/1 The Atlantes of this temple [of Jupiter Olympius, at Agrigentum] were twenty-five feet high.
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