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Triptych   Listen
noun
Triptych  n.  Anything in three parts or leaves. Specifically:
(a)
A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part.
(b)
A picture or altarpiece in three compartments.






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"Triptych" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Watts' Sir Galahad. After her mother's death, that winter, Mary added a Botticelli Madonna, the one with the pomegranate, which she hung by itself on a wall panel. There was a narrow black oak table under it to carry a Fra Angelico triptych flanked by two tall candlesticks. It wasn't exactly a shrine, even if there was a crimson cushion conveniently disposed before it, and if Mary for a while said her prayers there instead of in the old childish way at her bedside, and if she genuflected when she passed ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster



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