Definition of Canephor

1. a Greek maiden bearing a basket on her head [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Canephor

canebreaks
canecutter
caned
canefield fever
canegrub
canegrubs
caneh
canehs
caneland
canelands
canelike
canella
canella bark
canella family
canellas
canephor (current term)
canephora
canephors
caner
caners
canes
canescent
caneware
canewares
caneworking
canfield
canfieldite
canfieldites
canfields
canful

Literary usage of Canephor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"... is the case in almost every candelabrum of this description yet to support the basket, while br she slightly raises her tunic with the other. canephor ..."

2. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1849)
"They knew man owes to externals f< belief; and they knew t and its offspring, love, we powerful of these caus< chosen canephor was as if were stamped on the ..."

3. Book Plates and Their Value by John Herbert Slater (1898)
"Armorial, "Jacobean" design, the ground of the frame prominently latticed, bracket and frame combined, the scallop shell below replaced by a canephor (head ..."

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