triptych
Americannoun
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Fine Arts. a set of three panels or compartments side by side, bearing pictures, carvings, or the like.
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a hinged, three-leaved tablet, written on, in ancient times, with a stylus.
noun
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a set of three pictures or panels, usually hinged so that the two wing panels fold over the larger central one: often used as an altarpiece
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a set of three hinged writing tablets
Etymology
Origin of triptych
1725–35; < Greek tríptychos of three plates, equivalent to tri- tri- + ptych- (stem of ptýx ) plate + -os adj. suffix
Example Sentences
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Experts identified the triptych as the only surviving work of an unknown painter who was active in Brussels.
From BBC
A program interview with its authors indicates that the play was originally conceived by Mr. Glossman as a triptych drawing on three stories from Mr. Hanks’s 2017 collection of stories, “Uncommon Type.”
The triptych will be auctioned on 3 December to raise money for new accommodation for Sherborne people.
From BBC
“Father Mother Sister Brother”: Jim Jarmusch’s latest, which took top prize at this year’s Venice Film Festival, is a triptych of familial drama, with different casts in each part.
The finale of this Golden State triptych comes in a limited-run presentation of “Juana Maria,” the most recently written play of the three.
From Los Angeles Times
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