xoanon
noun
a simple, carved image, especially one in which the original block of stone or wood is readily apparent.
xoana
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pluralof xoanon.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Wood was often, if not exclusively, used for the earliest Greek temple-images, those rude xoana, of which many survived into the historical period, to be regarded with peculiar veneration.
From A History of Greek Art by Frank Bigelow Tarbell
