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caryatid

/kar-ee-at-id/US // ˌkær iˈæt ɪd //UK // (ˌkærɪˈætɪd) //

小姑娘,莸

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural car·y·at·ids, car·y·at·i·des [kar-ee-at-i-deez]. /ˌkær iˈæt ɪˌdiz/. Architecture.

    • : a sculptured female figure used as a column.Compare atlas.

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Examples

  • The caryatid form of pier is generally found, in temples, in the peristyles of the fore-courts or the hypostyles of the pronaos.

  • Then he noticed Alicia, sitting motionless in her seat, just as he had left her, with the expressionless face of a caryatid.

  • It stood probably in the portico and may have served as a Caryatid.

  • The famous caryatid porch faces the south, looking toward the Parthenon.

  • Observe beneath these rags those caryatid bodies, those austere faces!