A bstract We propose a new class of holographic dualities between certain, generically non supersymmetric, defect conformal field theories (dCFTs) and their gravity duals. Our construction interpolates between the 1/2-BPS D3-D3 system and its field theory dual at one end, and the holographic duality presented in [1] at the other. On the gravity side, the defect is realised by a novel D5 probe brane embedded in the AdS 5 × S 5 geometry. The symmetry of the induced on the D5 brane metric is AdS 3