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diptych

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"Two-panel artwork"

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɪptɪk/Part of speech nounSorted cdhiptyStarts with DEnds with H1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)

Word origin

From Late Latin diptycha, plural, from Ancient Greek, neuter plural of δίπτυχος (díptukhos, “folded, doubled”), from δι- (di-) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold, layer”).

Used in a sentence

  • A very simple narrative, a diptych, a pastoral in which the author narrates the birth of Christ […] first as it has impressed the rich countryman Asveer, then as it has been seen by the skeptic Nicodemus.
  • “Vegetation of the Sonoran Desert” is the first volume of a diptych “Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert,” for which Ira L. Wiggins is to write the companion volume on the flora.

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