TRIPTYCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does triptych mean? 

• TRIPTYCH (noun)
  The noun TRIPTYCH has 1 sense:

1. art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together)

  Familiarity information: TRIPTYCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRIPTYCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("triptych" 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)