ikon
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
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
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 rich man snarled at her and departed, but when he got home he said to the ikon, “A pretty surety thou art!”
From Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
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