Yore vs Kore - What's the difference?
yore | kore |
(poetic) time long past
(obsolete) In time long past; long ago.
* 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 a noun yore
is area.yore
English
Noun
(-)- This word comes from the days of yore .
Usage notes
A ; not used outside the phrase (of yore), especially the idiom days of yore.Adverb
(-)- Which though he hath polluted oft and yore , / Yet I to them for judgment just do fly.
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 ,.
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- Ducat believes that all the kore plastic vessels wearing transverse himatia ending in stepped folds over the abdomen originate in Rhodes (1966: 72).
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- Inscribed dedications often took the form of korai' (singular: ' kore ): statues, usually life-size or larger of female figures, generally goddesses.