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  • 1wooden Indian — ☆ wooden Indian n. 1. a wooden image of an American Indian in a standing position, formerly placed in front of cigar stores as an advertisement 2. Informal a person who is dull, spiritless, or inarticulate …

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  • 2wooden indian — noun Usage: usually capitalized I : a standing wooden image of an American Indian brave used especially formerly for advertising before a cigar store * * * 1. a carved wooden statue of a standing American Indian, formerly found before many cigar… …

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  • 3wooden Indian — noun Date: 1855 a wooden image of a standing American Indian brave used especially formerly as a sign for a cigar store …

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  • 4Image of Edessa — Mandylion redirects here. For the album of the band The Gathering, see Mandylion (album). According to the legend, King Abgar received the Image of Edessa, a likeness of Jesus. According to Christian legend, the Image of Edessa was a holy relic… …

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  • 5image — imageable, adj. imager, n. /im ij/, n., v., imaged, imaging. n. 1. a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible. 2. an optical counterpart or appearance of an… …

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  • 6WOODEN HORSE —    a gigantic horse of wood, within which Greek warriors were concealed, and which the Trojans were persuaded to admit into their city, to its ruin, on the pretext that it was an offering by the Greeks to Pallas, to atone for their abstraction of …

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  • 7Cult image — In the practice of religion, a cult image is a human made object that is venerated for the deity, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents. Cultus, the outward religious formulas of cult (meaning religious practice, as opposed to the… …

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  • 8Akhmim wooden tablet — The Akhmim wooden tablet, is an ancient Egyptian artifact that has been dated to 2000 BC, near to the beginning of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom. It is currently housed in Cairo s Museum of Egyptian Antiquities. Its text was reported by Georges… …

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  • 9Ardre image stones — The Ardre image stones are a collection of ten rune and image stones, dated to the 8th to 11th centuries. They were used as paving under the wooden floors of the local church in the Ardre parish of Gotland, and were re discovered when the church… …

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  • 10The Image of Bruce Lee — Infobox Film name=The Image of Bruce Lee director=Yueng Kuen writer= Zhaoquan Weng starring= Bruce Li Leih Chang Danna Bolo Yeung producer= Alex Guow production company= Goldig Film Company distributor= 20th Century Distribution (North America)… …

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