plural kouroi
ˈkü-(ˌ)rȯi 
: an ancient Greek statue of a nude male youth standing with the left leg forward and arms at the sides
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This contraction of various facial muscles resonates across the entire arc of human history, from the grinning Greek kouros sculptures of 2,500 years ago right up to emoji, those little images that pepper our online communications.
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Neil Steinberg, CNN, 13 June 2018
Now, with nary a word of explanation from the Getty, the kouros is gone.
—Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
Science is what had kept hopes alive that the kouros might be genuine.
—Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
There are true glam items — an apparitionally perfect marble kouros; a cup attributed to the great Penthesilea Painter — but also homely ones: pottery shards with inscriptions, that kind of thing.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2017
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Neil Steinberg, CNN, 13 June 2018
Now, with nary a word of explanation from the Getty, the kouros is gone.
—Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
Science is what had kept hopes alive that the kouros might be genuine.
—Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
There are true glam items — an apparitionally perfect marble kouros; a cup attributed to the great Penthesilea Painter — but also homely ones: pottery shards with inscriptions, that kind of thing.
—Holland Cotter, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2017
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“Kouros.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kouros. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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