MEANING
A screen or wall displaying icons and separating parts of an Eastern Christian church.
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- wooden iconostasis
- gilded iconostasis
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Candles lit the gilded iconostasis.
A narrow doorway pierced the wooden iconostasis.
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular iconostasis; plural iconostasiss. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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