kourai

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. animate statues of beautiful maidens, forged out of gold by the divine smith Hephaistos, who attended the Olympian gods plural,plural-only
    — On view from the sixth century B.C. are two small Attic representations of kourai, dressed statues of maidens, said to represent the Athenian aristocracy in rites celebrating the goddess Athena.

词源

Assumably from Ancient Greek κοῦραι (koûrai), if so, then it would be a doublet of korai?
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