noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A carving of a naked woman with an exaggerated vulva, found in old British and Irish architecture, perhaps used to ward off death and evil.

Etymology

From Irish Síle na gcíoch (“Julia of the breasts”). Attested in English from the 19th century.

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