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Caryatides

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Caryatides \Car`y*at"i*des\, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. ? (?)
   priestesses in the temple of Diana (the Greek Artemis) at
   Cary[ae] (Gr. ?), a village in Laconia; as an architectural
   term, caryatids.] (Arch)
   Caryatids.

   Note: Corresponding male figures were called Atlantes,
         Telamones, and Persians.
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