caryatid
/ˌkærɪˈætɪd/noun
(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）。
词源
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.