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DIPTYCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does diptych mean?
• DIPTYCH (noun)
The noun DIPTYCH has 1 sense:
1. a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)
Familiarity information: DIPTYCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("diptych" is a kind of...):
art; fine art (the products of human creativity; works of art collectively)
Context examples
Brother Luke hath given me some skill in damask work, and in the enamelling of shrines, tabernacles, diptychs and triptychs.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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"He who does not know the falcon would grill it." (Arabic proverb)
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