ikon
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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."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon.
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Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles.
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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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Upon entering the Spassky Gate, or Gate of the Redeemer, every hat has to be removed in honour of the ikon of the Saviour which is placed above it.
From Russian Life To-day by Right Rev. Herbert Bury
