ikon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Since then the artist's famed picture of his mother has become such a Mother's Day ikon* that a separate study of the Woman Behind the Painting became inevitable.
From Time Magazine Archive
The American delegation said he was not invited, tried to send him home, thawed out grudgingly when the Russians decided to make a "black ikon" of him.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Volkitch sighed, crossed himself before the ikon, and left the room.
From Gunpowder Treason and Plot And Other Stories for Boys by Avery, Harold
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