ikon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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When they found it by an ikon and paper flowers, she vainly implored them to leave its contents behind.
From Time Magazine Archive
A sculpture like Saint Sebastian, 1957-58, its bronze skin crusted with the shapes of reclaimed junk that Paolozzi had incorporated into the mold, balances neatly between golem and ikon.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles.
From Time Magazine Archive
And though I will try and describe what it directly represents in the shape of Church life later, yet from the very first I must write, as it were, with the ikon before me.
From Russian Life To-day by Bury, Right Rev. Herbert
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