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

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

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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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Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles.

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These babies have pressed their mouths to the sacred ikon the same as the older folk, and, doubtless, some gracious kindly angel will guard them ever hereafter.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey