telamones

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telamones - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Telamones \Tel`a*mo"nes\, n. pl. [L., pl. of telamo or telamon,
     Gr. ? a bearer, fr. ? to bear.] (Arch.)
     Same as Atlantes.
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  Atlantes \At*lan"tes\, n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. ?, pl. of ?. See
     Atlas.] (Arch.)
     Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an
     entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.
     --Oxf. Gloss.
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