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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
triptych
noun
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▪ As news of his triptych spread, he fell under increasing suspicion.
▪ Facing you on a curved wall is a triptych of towering double screens.
▪ First the St Sebastian triptych, all finished, down to the last arrowhead and gobbet of blood.
▪ Interior screens can range from fabric-covered triptych folding ones you can move around to sliding doors to a climbing house plant.
▪ It looked rather like a closed triptych.
▪ It takes the form of a painted triptych, eleven feet high, and is signed by Melchior Salabuss and dated 1588.
▪ The work forms part of a triptych - combining also the Requiem and Stabat Mater.
▪ There was no sign of the St Sebastian triptych.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triptych

Triptych \Trip"tych\, n. [Gr. ? consisting of three layers or plates; ? (see Tri-) + ?, ?, a fold, layer.] Anything in three parts or leaves. Specifically:

  1. A writing tablet in three parts, two of which fold over on the middle part.

  2. A picture or altarpiece in three compartments.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
triptych

"three-part altar-piece carvings or pictures hinged together," 1849, based on Italian triptica, from tri- "three" on model of diptych.

Wiktionary
triptych

n. 1 (context arts English) A picture or series of pictures painted on three tablet connected by hinge. 2 (context philately English) A set of three se-tenant postage stamp that form a composite picture.

WordNet
triptych

n. art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together)

Wikipedia
Triptych

A triptych ( ; from the Greek adjective τρίπτυχον "triptukhon" ("three-fold"), from tri, i.e., "three" and ptysso, i.e., "to fold" or ptyx, i.e., "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided into three sections, or three carved panels that are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open. It is therefore a type of polyptych, the term for all multi-panel works. The middle panel is typically the largest and it is flanked by two smaller related works, although there are triptychs of equal-sized panels. The form can also be used for pendant jewelry.

Triptych (disambiguation)

A triptych is a work of art that is divided into three sections.

Triptych or The Triptych may also refer to:

Triptych (The Tea Party album)

Triptych (1999) is The Tea Party's fifth album. It has the trio blending the major influences found on their previous albums: the earthy rock of Splendor Solis, the world music inspired arrangements of The Edges of Twilight, and the industrial edge of Transmission.

Triptych showed a band with a new confidence in songwriting. After the gloom of Transmission, which relied heavily on sampling and electronica, for Triptych the band wrote with both melody and content, while using electronica subtlety. This is evidenced by the Juno Award nominated single " Heaven Coming Down", the band's first number one single in Canada. The album itself received a Juno nomination for "Best Rock Album", before achieving double platinum sales in Canada.

In June 2000, the EMI labels in Europe released Triptych Special Tour Edition 2000, which included a bonus disc of eight unreleased songs.

Triptych (Bloodrock album)

Triptych is a two-disc compilation by Texan hard rock band Bloodrock released under One Way Records in 2000. The material on the first disc consists of the 1972 album, Passage, and the first half of the 1973 album Whirlwind Tongues. The second disc consists of the last half of Whirlwind Tongues and unfinished material of the would-be 1974 album, which Capitol Records refused to release at the time due to Bloodrock's waning popularity.

The unfinished material did not have a collective name until its release in 2000, when keyboardist Steve Hill suggested it be called Unspoken Words.

Triptych (ballet)

Triptych (Strings Percussion Celesta) is a ballet made by Christopher d'Amboise to Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, as part of New York City Ballet's Diamond Project. The premiere took place on Wednesday, 7 June 2000 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center.

Triptych (horse)

Triptych (1982–1989) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse.

Triptych (Shooting at Unarmed Men album)

Triptych is the third album of Welsh–Australian band Shooting At Unarmed Men. The album consists of three CDs. It was released in Australia on 11 August 2007 and set for a worldwide release on 31 March 2008.

Triptych (Slaughter novel)

Triptych is a 2006 thriller novel by American author Karin Slaughter. The first in her Atlanta series, the novel stars Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and features Angie Polaski.

Triptych (film)

Triptych is a 2013 Canadian drama film directed by Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires. The film was shown in the Panorama section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

Triptych (Lotte Anker album)

Triptych is the debut album by a free improvisation trio consisting of Danish saxophonist Lotte Anker and two American musicians: pianist Craig Taborn and drummer Gerald Cleaver. The trio had its inception in 2003, when a European tour came up and Marilyn Crispell, Anker and Cleaver's regular partner, was unable to participate. The album was released on the English Leo label.

Triptych (philately)

A triptych is a philatelic term (from the Greek: "three" + "fold") which was borrowed from the art world and having the same meaning: a set of three panels hinged together. It is used to describe three se-tenant postage stamps of related design that make up a complete single design.

In the US, the form is rarely used, perhaps because it does not lend itself to the popular plate block of four format for collecting. Instead, one frequently sees blocks of two or four or other even number of se-tenant stamps. In 1976, the US produced the " Spirit of '76" issue. In 1992 for the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus, the US issued a series of five triptychs in vertical format based on the famous 1892 series of commemorative stamps. This was a triptych only in the sense that they were thematically related to each other, but they were distinctively three designs rather than like the continuous design of the Spirit of '76.

Triptych (Frey novel)

Triptych is a 2011 debut novel by Canadian author J.M. Frey. The novel follows three narrators as they recount the events surrounding major turning points in the life of Gwen Pierson, a languages specialist: Evvie Pierson, Gwen's mother a housewife in rural southern Ontario; Kalp, an alien refugee from a dead planet living in England and Gwen's lover; and Basil Grey, a Welsh computer engineer.

It has been described as both science fiction and as literary fiction, and has been praised for blending both genres. It has also been praised for the distinctive voices of the narrators, and for its structure: the novel, rather than chapters, is segmented into three novella-length parts (each narrated by a different character – Evvie, Kalp, and Basil) which hinge together to tell the whole story. Frey deliberately chose this structure to mimic the artistic triptych technique.

Triptych received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and was named one of the best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly's Rose Fox. Triptych was also nominated for the CBC Bookie Award for Science Fiction, the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction, and the Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction. Triptych won best Science Fiction Book at the 2012 San Francisco Book Festival, and was given an honourable mention for Science Fiction Book at the 2012 London Book Festival.

The book was the #2 ebook best seller on Amazon.com its debut weekend, behind George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones.

Usage examples of "triptych".

As mere wood-carving the Saas-Fee chapels will not stand comparison, for example, with the triptych of unknown authorship in the Church of St.

The small wooden statues above the triptych, as also those above its modern companion in the south transept, are not less admirable than the triptych itself.

Bass on another, and a box of staples on the third, and the results would make me so sad that between the Beatrice triptych and the Baudelaire triptych I would scarcely stop weeping all day.

For instance, my friend Professor Reed made a triptych for me, and he painted fire on one panel, a typewriter on another, and the face of a beautiful, intelligent woman on the third.

Beatrice: But Elgar Triptych has specifically promised us that no hostilities will be directed at us.

The center shot in the triptych showed Miles Seabrook as a hockey goaliein those old days the goalies wore pads, but the brave face was naked, the eyes clear and challenging, the scar tissue everywhere.

Miles Seabrook, as he was called in the third photo in the triptych, stared back at Jenny Fields in a uniform all too familiar to her.

April 19, 1422, just four days before the date on the San Giovenale Triptych, Masaccio, Filippo, and Donatello all participated in the solemn consecration of the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, located in Florence south of the Arno.

Thaddeus George, had painted a triptych that, when laid side by side, portrayed the entire archipelago, immortalized in oils at a time when everyone had had high hopes for the future.

Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, which needed a painting for the centerpiece of an altar triptych in their church of San Francesco in Milan.

The picture was replaced by a triptych of bright toylike geometric shapes rotating and counter-rotating in intricate patterns like the mechanism of a transparent clock.

Collins stepped closer to the triptych and clasped his hands at his back.

He walked along, ignoring the triptych of silver partitions that marked the council chamber.

The triptych slid slowly back into place over the now-empty screen, and he stared at it for a moment.

I had never seen any painting from the water lily series in private hands, and here was a glorious canvas, practically as large as the triptych that hangs in the Museum of Modern Art, stretching the length of the wall.