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polyptych|ˈpɒlɪptɪk| [ad. late L. polyptycha, neut. pl. account-books, registers, ad. Gr. πολύπτυχος having many folds, f. πολυ-, poly- + πτυχή fold. Cf. mod.F. polyptyque (1732 in Hatz.-Darm.).] Anything consisting of more than three leaves or panels folded or hinged together, as a picture or an altar-piece. (Cf. diptych, triptych.)
1859Gullick & Timbs Paint. 307 The great altar-piece of the Van Eycks at Ghent is a polyptych. 1862Sat. Rev. XIII. 711/1 There are triptychs, and polyptychs, and statuettes, and pastoral staves, of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. 1897Edin. Rev. Apr. 345 They carried off a vast but not altogether first-rate polyptych, ‘The Virgin and Child with Saints’. |