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What is the female equivalent of an Atlas figure?

Question #52803. Asked by peasypod.

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MaggieG
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Answer has 1 vote.
Junoesque

Dec 01 2004, 10:34 AM
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Baloo55th
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If you're referring to a female (other than the ubiquitous in some countries little old woman in black with a bundle on her bent shoulders) carrying something very heavy like a beam, the answer is a caryatid. If it isn't, I'm probably a lemon.

Dec 01 2004, 12:12 PM
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