English-Finnish translations for cephalophore

Definition of cephalophore

• any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands
• The family of mollusks with distinct heads

Examples

• 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, [http://www.archive.org/stream/saintslegends00gero#page/50/mode/2up Saints Legends] (1916), p. 51
• Likely referencing an article by Marcel Hébert, "Les martyrs céphalophores Euchaire, in Elophe et Libaire", in Revue de lUniversité de Bruxelles, v. 19 (1914

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