(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.
Entablature
Definition:
(n.) The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice.