kore

plural korai

1. sculptureartAn Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.

   Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai (singular: kore): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.

   2002, Matthew Dillon, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion, page 9

   2 more examples

   Mus. No 685: Archaic kore of island marble (500-490 B. C.) 4 ft high. Attic work. This kore is not wearing the Ionian smile, but a look of solemn gravity. She does not gather up her robes with the left hand like the other kores,[…].

   1966, Spyros Meletzēs, Helenē A. Papadakē, Akropolis and Museum, page 42

   Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).

   1995, Irene Bald Romano, University of Pennsylvania Museum, The Terracotta Figurines and Related Vessels, page 14

alternative Core

1. Greekhuman sciencesThe birth name of Persephone/Proserpina, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and of vegetation. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; and the wife of Hades.
2. astronomyA moon of Jupiter.
3. rareA female given name from Ancient Greek.
4. rareA surname.

1. pluralplural onlyA people living on Lamu Island on the northern Kenyan coast.