leograph

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English

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Etymology

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From leo + -graph.

Noun

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leograph (plural leographs)

  1. 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.
  2. 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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