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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fine Arts) A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.
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- noun art A
spear -bearer ; astatue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear-bearer.
Etymologies
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Latin, from Ancient Greek literally "spear-bearing".
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