: a 2-leaved hinged tablet folding together to protect writing on its waxed surfaces
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: a picture or series of pictures (such as an altarpiece) painted or carved on two hinged tablets
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: a work made up of two matching parts
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On its surface, this disquieting diptych about male anxiety has the feel of, say, an Asghar Farhadi movie, a moral dilemma urging forth a thriller plot.—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025 The 2020 diptych of folklore and evermore showed Swift spreading her songwriting wings, and this track — written from the perspective of someone who’s mulling over a holiday fling with a long-ago ex — is one of her best recent offerings.—Maura Johnston, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024 Upstairs, a second office painted in jade features a 1970s cowhide screen that Driver found at Marche Paul Bert in Paris and a Nike Schroeder diptych, which was the first piece of art Driver purchased years ago for the clients’ first home.—Lindsay Talbot, Architectural Digest, 18 Dec. 2024 And while the reception for her art changed drastically over the years, the work itself maintained an intellectual rigor, criticality and playfulness that spanned her performances, collages, photographic diptychs and series, writings and more.—Benjamin Sutton, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for diptych
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Etymology
Late Latin diptycha, plural, from Greek, from neuter plural of diptychos folded in two, from di- + ptychē fold
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