ikon
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When they found it by an ikon and paper flowers, she vainly implored them to leave its contents behind.
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
The American delegation said he was not invited, tried to send him home, thawed out grudgingly when the Russians decided to make a "black ikon" of him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole life of the Russian people reminds those who visit them continually and in every possible way that they are in a religious country; for everywhere there is the ikon, or sacred religious picture.
From Russian Life To-day by Right Rev. Herbert Bury
