ikon
Americannoun
noun
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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
For as long as an ikon hung in the corner of a Russian izba, Patriarch Sergei would always be right.
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
During the elaborate ritual in which the bride relinquished her title for the official name of Mrs. Dikran Kuumjian, her gown caught fire from a burning ikon, was quickly extinguished.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before one huge ancient ikon of the Virgin a lamp was burning.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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