Definitions for triptychs

triptychs trip·tych

Spelling: [trip-tik]
IPA: /ˈtrɪp tɪk/

Triptychs is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 272 anagrams from letters in triptychs (chiprstty).

Definitions for triptychs

noun

  1. Fine Arts. a set of three panels or compartments side by side, bearing pictures, carvings, or the like.
  2. a hinged, three-leaved tablet, written on, in ancient times, with a stylus.

Origin of triptychs

1725-35; Greek tríptychos of three plates, equivalent to tri- tri- + ptych- (stem of ptýx) plate + -os adj. suffix

Examples for triptychs

The triptych was finished in 1472; it has unhappily disappeared.

It must be painted on a wooden case—I will show you the size—in the form of a triptych.

There is also a triptych by Memlinc in the Municipal Gallery.

The triptych which forms the reredos was carved at Ober Ammergau.

A triptych of photos of Carolyn had always been on display on the mantelpiece.

The central portion of this triptych was bought in 1874 for £525.

Everything is in motion, and the triptych panels often construct a narrative, like the frames of a film do.

Designers and mural decorators have been using the triptych ever since that period.

And the evangelicals have been especially irked by the recent sale of a Francis Bacon triptych for an astounding $142 million.

In the centre of the triptych is Mary enthroned, crowned by two angels.

Word Value for triptychs
Scrable

18

Words with friends

18

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