ikon

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His body eaten by acid, Codreanu was identified by the three crosses he had worn around his neck, a wedding ring and a small 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.

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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.

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Lectured Updike: "To criticize Miss Novak because her tone of voice is always the same is as absurd as criticizing a Byzantine ikon because it is static and badly drawn."

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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 Aksakov, S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich)