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  • noun Plural form of cephalophore.

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Examples

  • In bearing such a load-that is, in being narratively and visually represented as having done so-he joins the company of saints known as cephalophores: the head carriers.

    Guernica Magazine 2010

  • I want the cephalophores and their ilk to fulfill the promise of their unsettling portraits and tell me something impertinent.

    Guernica Magazine 2010

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