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keros

n. (plural of kero English)

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Keros

Keros is an uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades about southeast of Naxos. Administratively it is part of the community of Koufonisia. It has an area of and its highest point is . It was an important site to the Cycladic civilization that flourished around 2500 BC. It is now forbidden to land in Keros.

Keros is especially noted for the flat-faced Cycladic marble statues which later inspired the work of Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore.

Usage examples of "keros".

All around him were murals of heroism and faith, and Keros had the distasteful job of polishing all the mosaics before evening prayers.

His father was sitting where Keros should have been, reading what he was to know for the next day's service.

While a contrast from the norm, Keros had long since stopped wondering why his hair was a kelp green rather than the usual blue, and accepted it.

Having caught what appeared to be all of the fragments, Keros swam up the wall again to look at the damage, though the small pile of coral in his cupped hands seemed more terrifying than a horde of koalinth descending out of the gloom.

Pushing himself away from the wall in another wave of fear, Keros gasped as cracks appeared in the very spot he'd last touched.

The coral chips drifted out of his right hand and down through the water to the floor, forgotten as Keros watched an entire section of the wall crack and split from where he touched it.

His heart racing, Keros wondered why they didn't close in for the kill.

One shark lunged at him and Keros dived frantically, leaving the shark with only a mouthful of green hair and Keros with a sharp pain in his head.

The other shark closed in and Keros found himself too tired to avoid this one's attack.

As she relaxed slightly, Keros began swimming toward the far end of the hall, using the rubble for cover.

When she turned to him, Keros saw a look he'd never seen before-a look of despair.

Naran pried her daughter loose and handed her to Keros when she heard the sounds of more tritons dying behind her in the Great Vault, which lay open and exposed to the outer waters.

While he longed to be of help, Keros still had to see to Charan's safety.

Ignoring her cries but holding her all the more tightly in one arm, Keros swam up into a corridor that attached the tower to the stables.

Before Duupax could finish the spell he was weaving against them, Keros had closed the distance and slammed fully into the morkoth with the sword grip preceding him.