canephorusn.

Forms: Also ˈcanephor, caˈnephora.

Etymology: < Latin canēphora, Greek κανηϕόρος adjective ( < κάνεον basket + -ϕορος carrying), also as noun in senses given. In modern French canéphore, whence English canephor.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: caˈnephorus.

1. In ancient Greece: one of the ‘maidens who carried on their heads baskets containing the sacred things used at the feasts of Demeter, Bacchus, and Athena’ (Liddell and Scott).

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society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > heathen general > [noun] > participant in

feretrar1463

orgiast1791

canephorus1849

bassarid1865

ritualist1918

1849 Fraser's Mag. 39 713 To be chosen canephor was as if ‘Beautiful’ were stamped on the lintel of a woman's door.

2. Architecture. Applied to ‘figures of young persons, of either sex, bearing on their heads baskets containing materials for sacrifice’ (Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss.).

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > other ornaments

pommela1300

crest1430

finial1448

balloon1592

brattishingc1593

knob1610

cartouche1611

ogive1611

fret1626

galace1663

acroterion1664

paternoster1728

semi-urn1742

patera1776

purfling1780

sailing course1807

vesica piscis (also piscium)1809

antefix1819

vesica1820

garland1823

stop1825

Aaron's rod1830

headwork1831

Vitruvian scroll1837

hip knob1838

stelea1840

ball-flower1840

notch-head1843

brandishing1846

buckle1848

cat's-head1848

bucrane1854

cresting1869

semi-ball1875

canephorus1880

crest-board1881

wave pattern1905

husk1934

foliate head1939

green man1939

1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates iii. 23 The head of a canephorus.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	canephorus
释义	canephorusn. Forms: Also ˈcanephor, caˈnephora. Etymology: < Latin canēphora, Greek κανηϕόρος adjective ( < κάνεον basket + -ϕορος carrying), also as noun in senses given. In modern French canéphore, whence English canephor.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: caˈnephorus. 1. In ancient Greece: one of the ‘maidens who carried on their heads baskets containing the sacred things used at the feasts of Demeter, Bacchus, and Athena’ (Liddell and Scott). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > heathen general > [noun] > participant in feretrar1463 orgiast1791 canephorus1849 bassarid1865 ritualist1918 1849 Fraser's Mag. 39 713 To be chosen canephor was as if ‘Beautiful’ were stamped on the lintel of a woman's door. 2. Architecture. Applied to ‘figures of young persons, of either sex, bearing on their heads baskets containing materials for sacrifice’ (Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > other ornaments pommela1300 crest1430 finial1448 balloon1592 brattishingc1593 knob1610 cartouche1611 ogive1611 fret1626 galace1663 acroterion1664 paternoster1728 semi-urn1742 patera1776 purfling1780 sailing course1807 vesica piscis (also piscium)1809 antefix1819 vesica1820 garland1823 stop1825 Aaron's rod1830 headwork1831 Vitruvian scroll1837 hip knob1838 stelea1840 ball-flower1840 notch-head1843 brandishing1846 buckle1848 cat's-head1848 bucrane1854 cresting1869 semi-ball1875 canephorus1880 crest-board1881 wave pattern1905 husk1934 foliate head1939 green man1939 1880 J. L. Warren Guide Study Book-plates iii. 23 The head of a canephorus. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1849
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