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ankh

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ankh  (ngk)
n.
A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, especially as used in ancient Egypt as a symbol of life. Also called ansate cross.
[Egyptian 'n, life.]
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ankh
ankh
Noun
a T-shaped cross with a loop on the top, which symbolized eternal life in ancient Egypt [Egyptian `nh life, soul]

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Among the items that are returning from the 1978 exhibit are a small statue shrine, a mirror in the form of an ankh, a chest with poles and a lotus blossom cup.
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By choosing "not to take up the ankh instead of the cross, but to pull down all invisibilities" (457), he nearly became the invisible poet, and he did become the invisible man of America's fiction industry.
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Animal totems, ankh signs, and the artist's distinctive, neo-Coptic eye-makeup style that shows up in her self-portraits lend a rich period flavor to Brown's later paintings.
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