Figures of young persons of either sex bearing a basket on their head. (Latin, canephorœ, plural; singular, Greek, κανηφóρoζ.) The English singular is “canephor” (3 syl.).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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