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Definition of Atlanes

Atlantes, figures of men used in architecture instead of pillars.
- Wikipedia

||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.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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