ikon
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon.
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
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
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
In his hands was put an ikon of the Saviour.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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