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Coptic icons

Coptic icons are sacred painted images of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints made for the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, usually on wooden panels.

Coptic textiles

Coptic textiles are the decorated woven fabrics of Egypt from roughly the 3rd to the 12th century, tapestry work on linen preserved in dry burials.

Copy-text

A copy-text is the specific document or edition an editor follows as the authority in establishing a work's text, formalized in W. W. Greg's 1950 "Rationale of Copy-Text."

Copycat

Copycat is a 1995 American psychological thriller directed by Jon Amiel, starring Sigourney Weaver as an agoraphobic psychologist helping San Francisco police hunt a serial killer.

Copycat Killer (模仿犯) (TV series)

Copycat Killer (模仿犯) is a 2023 Netflix-exclusive Taiwanese crime thriller series, adapted from Miyuki Miyabe's million-selling novel, directed by Chang Jung-chi and Chang Hen-ju, starring Wu Kang-ren as a 1990s Taipei prosecutor hunting Taiwan's first serial killer; first Taiwanese series in Netflix's global Top 10.

Coq au vin

Coq au vin: classic French dish of rooster or chicken braised in red wine with lardons, mushrooms, and pearl onions; Burgundian pinot noir version is the reference, with Alsace riesling, Jura vin jaune, and Champagne variants.

Coquette aesthetic

Coquette aesthetic: a hyper-feminine fashion trend of bows, lace, pearls, and pastels drawing on Victorian, Rococo, ballet, and Japanese Lolita influences; viral on TikTok from 2021, peaking 2023–2024; distinct from balletcore, cottagecore, and twee.

Coquito

Coquito is a thick, creamy Puerto Rican holiday drink made with coconut milk, sweetened condensed milk, Puerto Rican rum, and warm spices, often described as the island's version of eggnog.

Cor anglais

Cor anglais (English horn, corno inglese): alto double-reed woodwind of the oboe family, pitched in F a fifth below the oboe, with pear-shaped bell, 93 cm tube, identical oboe fingering, famous for Dvořák and Wagner solos.

Cora Coralina

Cora Coralina was the pen name of Ana Lins dos Guimarães Peixoto Bretas, a Brazilian poet and short-story writer from Goiás who published her first book at 75.

Cora Sandel

Cora Sandel, pen name of Sara Fabricius (1880–1974), was a Norwegian writer and painter best known for the semi-autobiographical Alberte trilogy about a woman's path to becoming a writer.

Coral Browne

Coral Browne (Coral Edith Brown, 1913–1991) was an Australian actress who built her career in London and Hollywood. Old Vic Shakespeare roles, Auntie Mame, The Ruling Class, BAFTA winner for An Englishman Abroad, wife of Vincent Price.

Coral Castle

Coral Castle (Rock Gate), Homestead, Florida: a sculpture garden of over 1,100 tons of oolitic limestone built alone by Latvian immigrant Edward Leedskalnin from 1923 to 1951, with a finger-turnable nine-ton gate, Polaris telescope, and sundial.

Coralie Fargeat

Coralie Fargeat (born 1976, Paris) is a French director of feminist body horror. Directed Revenge (2017) and The Substance (2024), which won Cannes Best Screenplay and five Oscar nominations including Best Director.

Coraline

Coraline, Neil Gaiman's 2002 children's dark-fantasy novella, follows a girl trapped by the button-eyed Other Mother behind a door in her new house; it won the Hugo and Bram Stoker Awards and became Henry Selick's 2009 LAIKA stop-motion film.

Coraline (film)

Coraline (2009) is Henry Selick's stop-motion adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novella and Laika's first feature, the first stop-motion film in stereoscopic 3D, starring Dakota Fanning, with a $94.2M US gross, an Oscar nomination, and a 2024 remastered 3D re-release.

Corazón de Marruecos

Corazón de Marruecos (Heart of Morocco) is a Mexican TelevisaUnivision telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo, a version of Muchacha italiana viene a casarse set between Morocco and Mexico, starring África Zavala and José Ron, premiering late 2026 on ViX and early 2027 on Las Estrellas.

Corazón de oro

Corazón de oro (Heart of Gold) is a 2026 Mexican telenovela by Pedro Ortiz de Pinedo, adapting Portugal's Coração d'Ouro; it stars Mayrín Villanueva, Gabriel Soto, and Gala Montes, ran 80 episodes on Las Estrellas from March 2 to June 19, 2026, and aired on Univision from July 14, 2026.

Corazón valiente

Corazón valiente (Fearless Heart, originally Caídas del Cielo) is a 2012–2013 Telemundo telenovela created by Marcela Citterio, starring Adriana Fonseca and Ximena Duque as two female bodyguards, 206 episodes, one season.

Corbin Bernsen

Corbin Bernsen (born 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer known as Arnie Becker on L.A. Law, Henry Spencer on Psych, and Roger Dorn in the Major League films; son of Jeanne Cooper, husband of Amanda Pays, founder of Home Theater Films.

Corbin Bleu

Corbin Bleu (Corbin Bleu Reivers), American actor, dancer, and singer born 1989 in Brooklyn; known as Chad Danforth in Disney's High School Musical trilogy and Izzy in Jump In!, later a Broadway performer in In the Heights, Holiday Inn, Kiss Me Kate, and The Great Gatsby.

Cord Jefferson

Cord Jefferson (born 1982, Tucson, Arizona) is an American writer-director, former Gawker editor, and TV writer (Watchmen, The Good Place, Succession) who won the 2020 Emmy and the 2024 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for American Fiction.

Cordae

Cordae (Cordae Dunston, b. 1997), formerly YBN Cordae, is an American rapper from Suitland, Maryland; Grammy-nominated for The Lost Boy, with albums From a Birds Eye View and The Crossroads.

Cordel do Fogo Encantado

Cordel do Fogo Encantado is a Brazilian scenic-musical band formed in 1997 in Arcoverde, in the sertão of Pernambuco, joining the oral poetry of backlands cantadores with Afro-indigenous rhythms and theatrical staging.

Cordel literature

Cordel literature (literatura de cordel) is a Brazilian tradition of popular poetry printed in small rhymed pamphlets, first sold hanging from strings at open-air markets.

Cordelia Chase

Cordelia Chase, Charisma Carpenter's character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, a mean-girl cheerleader who becomes a visions-bearing hero, is possessed in Angel season 4, and dies off-screen in season 5.

Cordoba Umayyad art

Cordoba Umayyad art is the architecture and decorative art produced under the Umayyad dynasty of al-Andalus, the Islamic state centered on Córdoba in southern Spain between 756 and 1031.

Cordon bleu (dish)

Cordon bleu (cordon-bleu, "blue ribbon") is a breaded cutlet filled with ham and melted cheese, a Swiss classic attributed to Brig, Valais; the name comes from the Order of Saint Esprit and also denotes a skilled cook and the Le Cordon Bleu school.

Corduroy

Corduroy, also called Manchester cloth, is a cotton cut-pile woven fabric with lengthwise ribs (wales) formed by cutting extra weft floats; wale count, from featherwale at 25 to elephant cord at 2 per inch, sets its texture and use.

Corduroy (book)

Corduroy, Don Freeman's 1968 Viking Press picture book, follows a teddy bear in green overalls searching a department store at night for his missing button before Lisa buys him; about 20 million copies sold, sequel A Pocket for Corduroy (1978).