ikon
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They descended carefully, a step at a time, for nine floors, like a solemn religious procession bearing aloft a sacred relic or 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
For as long as an ikon hung in the corner of a Russian izba, Patriarch Sergei would always be right.
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.
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She fell on her knees in her garret before the ikon, and, with floods of bitter tears, pressed her face on the dirt-stained floor.
From A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov
