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Jun 20, 2000

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Feminine and masculine forms of words

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caryatid
telamon
lamia
warlock
gynarchy
androcracy
nymphomania

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telamon

noun: A figure of a man used as a supporting pillar.

Latin telamon, from Greek, bearer.

Atlas is another word for figure of a man used as a column.

"Even though Dickens never pulled down the temple, he went further than Thackeray in mocking the pillars of a repressive society--Podsnap a telamon and Mrs. General a caryatid."
Rodney Stenning Edgecombe; Middle-class Erasures: The Decreations of Mrs. General and Mr. Podsnap; Studies in the Novel; Fall 1999.

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