leograph
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Etymology
Noun
leograph (plural leographs)
- A stylized lion motif or icon mainly found in Sinospheric and Indospheric regions' architectures.
- 1982, Bratindra Nath Mukherjee, East Indian Art Styles: A Study in Parallel Trends, Humanities Press, page 25:
- The deity on the animal is flanked by two figures and set against a frame displaying inter alia a leograph on each side.
- 1893, Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 589:
- the character on the abdomen and on its right may be considered to be the leograph for pain in that part of the body.
- An artistic representation of a lion (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 2005, Tin Mg Oo, Aspects of Myanmar Culture, Cho-Tay-Than Bookhouse, page 31:
- Tuesday-Sa,hsa,za,zha,nya-3-Leograph(Lion).
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