What's the difference between caryatic and caryatid?

Caryatic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Caryatid

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Caryatid


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a caryatid.
  • (n.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ceremony had a bogus feel but, dressed in that clinging material the Athenian sculptors rendered so miraculously in marble, the virgins of Vesta the goddess of fire really did look as though they had served as caryatids or just stepped from an ancient frieze.

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