caryatid [ˌkarɪˈatɪd] (pl. caryatides -diːz 或 caryatids)
(Architecture)a stone carving of a draped female figure, used as pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building (建筑)女像柱(用作支撑希腊或希腊风格建筑的柱上楣构)
语源
mid 16th cent.: via French and Italian from Latin caryatides, from Greek karuatides, plural of karuatis 'priestess of Artemis at Caryae', from Karuai (Caryae) in Laconia