Usually means: Multi-panel artwork, often religious.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. polyptych: Merriam-Webster
  2. polyptych: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polyptych: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. polyptych: Collins English Dictionary
  5. polyptych: Wordnik
  6. polyptych: Wiktionary
  7. polyptych: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. polyptych: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. polyptych: Dictionary.com
  10. Polyptych (document), Polyptych: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. polyptych: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. polyptych: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Polyptych: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists

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Definitions from Wiktionary (polyptych)

▸ noun:  (art) A work consisting of multiple painted or carved panels joined together, often with hinges.

Similar:
diptych, hexaptych, tetraptych, sextych, polylogy, pentalogy, triptych, panellation, Ancona, bifold, more...

Opposite:
monptych, single panel, unipanel

Types:
diptych, triptych, quadriptych, pentaptych, hexaptych, more...

Adjectives:
large, great, century, same, dismembered, famous, gothic, small, original, open, early

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Similar:
diptych, hexaptych, tetraptych, sextych, polylogy, pentalogy, triptych, panellation, Ancona, bifold, more...

Opposite:
monptych, single panel, unipanel

Types:
diptych, triptych, quadriptych, pentaptych, hexaptych, more...

Adjectives:
large, great, century, same, dismembered, famous, gothic, small, original, open, early



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