Diptych

[diptik]

Definition

(noun.) a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book).

Typist: Rosa--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) Anything consisting of two leaves.

(n.) A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.

(n.) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.

(n.) A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

Inputed by Alphonso

Definition

n. a double-folding writing-tablet: a register of bishops saints &c. read aloud during the eucharist: a pair of pictures as folding-tablets.

Edited by Angelina