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n. - A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.

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  • For those of you looking confused and drug-addled, the word ikon is Greek, and means ‘image.’
  • In the corner a light was burning before a small ikon.
  • “Surely it wasn't you lighted the lamp under the ikon?”
  • His torpid eyes, sunk in fat, were fixed upon the ikon stand.
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