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iconography
 
SYLLABICATION:i·co·nog·ra·phy
PRONUNCIATION:  k-ngr-f
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. i·co·nog·ra·phies
1a. Pictorial illustration of a subject. b. The collected representations illustrating a subject. 2. A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized work of art. 3. A treatise or book dealing with iconography.
ETYMOLOGY:Late Latin conographia, description, verbal sketch, from Medieval Greek eikonographi : eikono-, icono- + -graphi, -graphy.
OTHER FORMS:ico·nogra·pherNOUN
i·cono·graphic (-kn-grfk) , i·cono·graphi·calADJECTIVE
 
 
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