ikon
Example Sentences
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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
It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon.
From Time Magazine Archive
Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles.
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 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
