diptych
noun/ˈdɪptɪk/
/ˈdɪptɪk/
(specialist)- a painting, especially a religious one, with two wooden panels that can be closed like a bookTopics Artc2Word Originearly 17th cent.: via late Latin from late Greek diptukha ‘pair of writing tablets’, neuter plural of Greek diptukhos ‘folded in two’, from di- ‘twice’ + ptukhē ‘a fold’.
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