Cephalophore Definition
noun
Similarly, it is clear that the whole company of martyrs, of whom legend relates that they carried their heads after death, the céphalophores, arose from a widely known form of iconography.
Gordon Hall Gerould, Saints' Legends (1916), p. 51
Likely referencing an article by Marcel Hébert, "Les martyrs céphalophores Euchaire, in Elophe et Libaire", in Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles, v. 19 (1914).
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Singular:
cephalophore
Plural:
cephalophoresOrigin of Cephalophore
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From French céphalophore, from Ancient Greek Κηφᾶς (Kēphâs) + -phore, from Ancient Greek -φορος (-phoros, “bearing”), a derivative of φέρω (pherō, “I bear, I carry”)
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