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Diptych
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Object made of two paired flat plates, often joined by a hinge
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A diptych (, DIP-tick) is any object with two flat plates which form a pair, often attached by a hinge. For example, the standard notebook and school exercise book of the ancient world was a diptych consisting of a pair of such plates that contained a recessed space filled with wax. Writing was accomplished by scratching the wax surface with a...

Subclass of
dilogy
Followed by
Triptych
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