1The Virgin Mary.

1. 1.1 A picture, statue, or medallion of the Madonna, typically depicted seated and holding the infant Jesus.
   圣母画像（或雕像）
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   • This week whilst at his daily travail Charles discovered one of his frypans has been miraculously scorched with a ghostly image of the madonna.
   • Graham had told me that he did not want to create yet another madonna who ‘looked like Mary Pickford.’
   • This madonna came about when the parish priest of Tinajo put a statue of the virgin in the path of the lava flow at the end of the village, the lava changed course and the village was spared.
   • He gave the madonna to Nathella, a riflery simulator to Clancy, pressed flowers to Fiona, and an abstract pattern to Aed.
   • Whenever I hear polyphony I do not think of original sin, or even of a Bellini madonna, but of patterns: musical shapes converging and dispersing like planets in the cosmos; shifting forms in light.
   • For centuries, images of the madonna, the beautiful nude and now the supermodel have reigned, while ordinary women remain largely undepicted in art, film and photography.
   • During the 1940s came a series of small maquettes of madonna and child, followed by family groups.
   • Within the Christian tradition, the (single parent) madonna with the baby Jesus in her arms is a familiar image.
2. 1.2 An idealized virtuous and beautiful woman.
   理想中的淑女
   he describes Evelyn as a madonna

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   • There are no formulary Baroque madonnas, prettily ornamental angels, or idealized saints here.
   • In the moonlit shadows, her head bent over her sister, she looked like a madonna.
   • He complains when the love of his life prefers Kandinsky's paintings to depictions of madonnas because he finds Kandinsky jarring and not conducive to bringing couples together.
   • Their colloquy is presided over by the ‘woman in the sun’ of the Book of Revelation; but in Pisanello's lighthearted interpretation she is, however solar, an elegant mouse of a woman; a childlike madonna cheek-to-cheek with her infant.
   • Art and literature are as, if not more, responsible in this respect as law in creating models that reproduce stereotypes of women as madonnas or whores or, in fairy tale terms, wicked witches and sleeping beauties.
   • One would fight to the death for the lady liege, the madonna, and be happy with a talismanic scarf, a kind glance.

(born 1958), US pop singer and actress; born Madonna Louise Ciccone. Albums such as Like a Virgin (1984) and her image as a sex symbol brought her international stardom in the mid 1980s.