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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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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When they found it by an ikon and paper flowers, she vainly implored them to leave its contents behind.

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For as long as an ikon hung in the corner of a Russian izba, Patriarch Sergei would always be right.

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That ikon was now jarringly displaced by this insistent presence, and she could not satisfy herself yet as to whether the change pleased or displeased her.

From The Crux by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins