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Definition of "kore" []

  • A sculpture representing a standing young woman clothed in long robes, especially one produced in Greece before the fifth century B.C. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "kore" in a sentence
  • "The Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge has a nice plaster reconstruction of the Peplos Kore (a kore is a young woman, a peplos a garment)."
  • "Food places usually have picture menus you can point at 'kore' is the most useful Japanese word, I swear."
  • "But he escaped, and the Swiss congratulated each other heartily ( "kore")."