The term 'Venus de Milo' is a reference to an ancient Greek statue of the goddess Aphrodite, also known as Venus, which was discovered in 1820 on the island of Milos. The statue is believed to have been sculpted sometime between 130 and 100 BC and is now housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The crossword solution for this term is 'Milo, ' which is the name of the island where the statue was found.