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A painting or carved artwork made of several connected panels.
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- altar polyptych
- carved polyptych
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The altar polyptych stood half open.
Dust obscured the figures in the carved polyptych.
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular polyptych; plural polyptychs. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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