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kouros

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kou·ros  (krs)
n. pl. kou·roi (kroi)
A sculpture representing a standing nude young man, especially one produced in Greece before the fifth century b.c.
[Greek, boy; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots.]


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To use the term kouros is to take a title from a founding category, a figural type.
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Centuries before there were curb jockeys and pink flamingos, the ancient Greeks were cranking out kouros statues.
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