ikon
Americannoun
noun
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Lectured Updike: "To criticize Miss Novak because her tone of voice is always the same is as absurd as criticizing a Byzantine ikon because it is static and badly drawn."
From Time Magazine Archive
For as long as an ikon hung in the corner of a Russian izba, Patriarch Sergei would always be right.
From Time Magazine Archive
Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles.
From Time Magazine Archive
His body eaten by acid, Codreanu was identified by the three crosses he had worn around his neck, a wedding ring and a small ikon.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a tiny silver ikon on a cord, such as is sometimes worn next the skin with a cross.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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