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iconic

[ahy-kon-ik]

adjective

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an icon.

Art. (of statues, portraits, etc.) executed according to a convention or tradition.

Also, i·con·i·cal.

Origin:
1650–60; < Latin īconicus < Greek eikonikós, equivalent to eikon- (stem of eikṓn) icon + -ikos -ic

Related forms

i·con·i·cal·ly, adverb

i·co·nic·i·ty

[ahy-kuh-nis-i-tee] , noun

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iconic or iconical (aɪˈkɒnɪk)

—*adj*
1.	relating to, resembling, or having the character of an icon
2.	(of memorial sculptures, esp those depicting athletes of ancient Greece) having a fixed conventional style

iconical or iconical

—*adj*

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"Iconic clothing has been secularized.... A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent."

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