"autoicon" meaning in English

See autoicon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: autoicons [plural]
Etymology: auto- + icon Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|auto|icon}} auto- + icon Head templates: {{en-noun}} autoicon (plural autoicons)
  1. Something that serves as an icon representing itself.
    Sense id: en-autoicon-en-noun-Q3gVqfj9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with auto-

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2008, Robin Osborne, Jeremy Tanner, Art's Agency and Art History",
          "text": "[…] as recently as the 1950s in Taiwan, flesh-body portraits were autoicons produced by a sustained process of self-starvation, while seated in a meditating position, relying on a diet including pine kernels and cinnabar to dehydrate the body […]",
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          "ref": "2009, Keith Hayward, Shadd Maruna, Jayne Mooney, Fifty Key Thinkers in Criminology",
          "text": "Many regard as typically and preciously odd his wish to have his body mummified after death so that in place of a stone statue of himself he could be an 'autoicon'.",
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