ikon

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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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.

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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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I shall always be pleased to see you in memory of those few moments we spent before the village ikon.

From The Intriguers by Le Queux, William