diptych

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The first half of this diptych is a white rectangle that holds nothing but two double quotation marks, in black.

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  1. noun A work consisting of two painted or carved panels that are hinged together.
  2. noun An ancient writing tablet having two leaves hinged together.
  3. noun A list of names, originally contained on such a tablet, of living and dead Christians for whom special prayers are made during the liturgy in many eastern and western churches.

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  • And that's a diptych, so I do a lot of pairings to try and get the sense of scale in these places. —  Edward Burtynsky on manufactured landscapes
  • As with Duncan's Vellum diptych, the more one sees of it, the more one is able to appreciate the beauty and symmetry of the underlying architecture. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#216
  • Steven Soderbergh's monumental two-movie portrait of Che Guevara has arrived: opaque and enigmatic enough, probably, to count as a "diptych". —  Film | guardian.co.uk
  • The first half of this diptych is a white rectangle that holds nothing but two double quotation marks, in black. —  dbqp: visualizing poetics
  • In this regard, comparisons to the remarkable Before diptych might be useful. —  GreenCine Daily
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  1. Late Latin diptycha, from Greek diptukha, from neuter pl. of diptukhos, folded double : di-, two; see di-1 + ptukhē, fold (from ptussein, ptukh-, to fold).

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  1. from Late Latin diptycha, plural, from Greek διπτυχα, plural, a pair of writing-tablets (earlier δίπτυχον δελτίον, literally a double-folded tablet), neuter of δίπτυχος, double-folded, from δι-, two-, + πτυχή, fold, from πτύσσ, σ1ειν, fold. The second element exists also in policy, q. v.
 

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