eikon
Americannoun
noun
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The thing Naoki Yoshida is most excited about in Final Fantasy XVI is the eikon battles.
From The Verge ● Jun. 23, 2022
In the West eikon became "icon" and has continued to be used for an image, not necessarily religious.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2016
An eikon by the chimneypiece can take me to Russia with its great forests of birch and its white, domed churches.
From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
How brightly the eikon lamp burns before the portrait of my boy.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
When the Saracens besieged the city the eikon was carried round the fortifications, and the enemy had fled.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen
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