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diptych
/ˈdɪptɪk/
noun 5
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3ADJ.
pastoral, simple
DIPTYCH + NOUN
flora, vegetation
PREP.
in
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noun
1
A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
2
A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges.
3
A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of a church.
4
A catalogue of saints.
5
Artistically-wrought tablets distributed by consuls, etc. of the later Roman Empire to commemorate their tenure of office; hence (transferred sense) a list of magistrates.
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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 Nicode
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“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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