caryatid

• With a concha on her head, she would look like a caryatid. —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
• It looks a little like a desert nomad's tent in Technicolor, and comes fronted by an immobile bare-shouldered woman in vertical repose, cast like a caryatid and basking in cat-eye shades under some imagined equatorial sun for, I'm told, hours on end. —  San Francisco Bay Guardian: Top Stories
• At the base of each a gigantic half-caryatid, in the style of the ancient hermć_, but finished to the waist, bends beneath the superincumbent weight, like Atlas under the globe. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863
• Not far from that consummate caryatid, among the black columns of the tall trees laid against the lave of the blue, and beneath their cloudy branches, there are mystic enlacements which move to and fro; and hardly can one distinguish the two halves of which they are made, for the temple of night is enclosing them The ancient hut of a fisherman is outlined on the grassy slope. —  Light
• The caryatid is a supporting member in the form of a woman; in the Ionic column we discern her stiffened, like Lot's wife, into a pillar, with nothing to show her feminine but the spirals of her beautiful hair. —  The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture

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