caryatids

variants or caryatides
Definition of caryatidsnext
plural of caryatid

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Noun
  • In the end, Laffrey, whose Broadway credits include Maybe Happy Ending and Parade, settled for using an iPhone app to record the size of pilasters and mullioned mirrors.
    Carey Purcell, Architectural Digest, 27 Oct. 2025
  • With pilasters, a limestone facade, and classic symmetrical design, the three-story building exemplifies the Beaux-Arts style popular at the turn of the 20th century, grand but not ostentatious.
    Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • On Soho's Carnaby Street, an NFL pop-up shop sells blue-and-gold London Games jerseys and bomber jackets, while the New Era baseball cap shop has Jaguars and Rams hats on pedestals in the window.
    Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Clemishire added that pastors should not be put on pedestals and that too often, the victims are ignored.
    Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Some questions may be adapted into full columns, and transcripts of the chats remain available after each session concludes.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The monument features 22-foot columns carved with images of community heroes and mentors.
    Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The strikes, which marked the first time in the war Israel has openly attacked civilian industrial infrastructure in Iran, sent fiery pillars and black smoke into the sky and caused oily raindrops to fall onto the city.
    NPR Staff, NPR, 9 Mar. 2026
  • While the iron was replaced with steel and a new deck was added in the 1930s, the limestone pillars are original.
    Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • For now, though, the piers are just getting ready for summer.
    Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The Navy sometimes refers to the ships as floating piers.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The owner of Pimento Jamaican Kitchen brought stanchions from his rum bar to the street to keep protesters separated from officers, working as a volunteer to ensure the demonstration remains peaceful.
    Kiki Intarasuwan, CBS News, 25 Jan. 2026
  • That report will give everyone a sense as to why that plane left Statesville on a Thursday morning, then immediately turned around and tried to return to the same airport before striking trees and light stanchions, crashing and bursting into flame only 10 minutes after takeoff.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 16 Jan. 2026
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“Caryatids.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caryatids. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.

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