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plural cephalophores
(Roman Catholicism) Any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands. quotations examples
According to William of Worcester, quite a large number of Cornish saints were cephalophores: besides S. Nectan and S. Willow, he tells us that “there were three brothers under the name of Genesius and each one carried his head.”
1960, Gilbert Hunter Doble, The Saints of Cornwall, volume 5, page 60
(obsolete) Synonym of cephalopod: a mollusk of the class Cephalopoda.