sb. pl. Arch. [L., a. Gr. Ἄτλαντες, pl. of Ἄτλας: see ATLAS sb.1] Figures or half-figures of men used instead of columns to support an entablature.
1835. Penny Cycl., III. 25/1. The Atlantes of this temple [of Jupiter Olympius, at Agrigentum] were twenty-five feet high.
