“canephorus”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

canephorus

释义

caˈnephorus
Also ˈcanephor, caˈnephora.
[a. L. canēphora, Gr. κανηϕόρος adj. (f. κάνεον basket + -ϕορος carrying), also as n. in senses given. In mod.F. canéphore, whence Eng. canephor.]
a. In ancient Greece, one of the ‘maidens who carried on their heads baskets containing the sacred things used at the feasts of Demeter, Bacchus, and Athena’ (Liddell and Scott); hence,
b. Arch. applied to ‘figures of young persons, of either sex, bearing on their heads baskets containing materials for sacrifice’ (Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss.).
1849Fraser's Mag. XXXIX. 713 To be chosen canephor was as if ‘Beautiful’ were stamped on the lintel of a woman's door.1880Warren Book-plates iii. 23 The head of a canephorus.

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