Lore vs Kore - What's the difference?
lore | kore |
all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
* Milton
The backstory created around a fictional universe.
(obsolete) workmanship
(anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
(anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
(obsolete) (lose)
* Spenser
(arts, sculpture) An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.
* 1966 , Spyros Meletz?s, Helen? A. Papadak?, Akropolis and Museum ,
* 1995 , Irene Bald Romano, University of Pennsylvania Museum, The Terracotta Figurines and Related Vessels ,
* 2002 , Matthew Dillon, Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion ,
As an adjective lore
is their.lore
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lore, from (etyl) '', German ''Lehre . See also (l).Noun
- the lore of the Ancient Egyptians
- His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore .
- (Spenser)
Derived terms
* birdlore * booklore * catlore * doglore * faxlore * fishlore * folklore * photocopylore * woodlore * wortlore * xeroxloreEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* loredEtymology 3
Verb
(head)- Neither of them she found where she them lore .
Anagrams
* ----kore
English
Noun
(en-noun)page 42,
- 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 ,.
page 14,
- Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).
page 9,
- Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai' (singular: ' kore ): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.