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

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.

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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.

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Alexyéi Stepanitch broke the seal with trembling fingers, read the few lines, burst into tears, and fell on his knees before the ikon.

From A Russian Gentleman by Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)