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Webster 1913 Edition
Atlantes
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At-lan′tes
,Noun.
pl.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK], pl. of [GREEK]. See
Atlas
.] (Arch.)
Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; – called also
telamones
. See Caryatides
. Oxf. Gloss.