: a Christian ascetic living atop a pillar
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For the down-to-earth dresser, striped pajama sets from The Row or With Nothing Underneath will carry you from the beach to the street, while the more festive summer stylite may opt to go for something printed or crochet.
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Christina Holevas, Vogue, 4 July 2025
In the story about the columns, they are said to have originated with a fiery seventeenth-century preacher, but the whole notion obviously owes something to the stylites, those early Christian ascetics who lived on top of pillars in the desert.
—Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
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Christina Holevas, Vogue, 4 July 2025
In the story about the columns, they are said to have originated with a fiery seventeenth-century preacher, but the whole notion obviously owes something to the stylites, those early Christian ascetics who lived on top of pillars in the desert.
—Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
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“Stylite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stylite. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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