caryatid

• With a concha on her head, she would look like a caryatid. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
• The visitor had flopped onto the caryatid-pillared bed. —  The Shadow Of The Lion
• This was like acting as a caryatid to several sacks of soggy sand. —  A Body In The Bath House
• Sometimes it may be called a caryatid, which is, as I understand it, a cruel device of architecture, representing a man or a woman, obliged to hold up upon his or her head or shoulders a structure which they did not build, and which could stand just as well without as with them. —  The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
• A day or two after Mrs. March had met Mrs. Adding, she went with her husband to revere a certain magnificent blackamoor whom he had discovered at the entrance of one of the aristocratic hotels on the Schlossberg, where he performed the function of a kind of caryatid, and looked, in the black of his skin and the white of his flowing costume, like a colossal figure carved in ebony and ivory. —  Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 2

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