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Brewer's: Canephorae
(in architecture). Figures of young persons of either sex bearing a basket on their head. (Latin, canephoræ, plural; singular, Greek, kaghjoroz.) The English singular is “canephor” (3 syl.).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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