The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromκοῦραι
- English todaykourai
Assumably from Ancient Greek κοῦραι (koûrai), if so, then it would be a doublet of korai?
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kourai
Today it means: animate statues of beautiful maidens, forged out of gold by the divine smith Hephaistos, who attended the Olympian gods Full definition →
Ancient Greek κοῦραι