Doryphoros

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Doryphoros \Do*ryph"o*ros\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, lit., spear
     bearing; ? a spear + fe`rein to bear.] (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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