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Ornamental wall behind an altar
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reredos
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n. A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reredos \Rere"dos\ (r?r"d?s), n. [From rear + F. dos back, L. dorsum. Cf. Dorsal .] (Arch.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar. The back of a fireplace. The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center ...
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A reredos or raredos is an altarpiece , or a screen or decoration behind the altar in a church , often including religious images. In French and sometimes in English , this is called a retable ; in Catalan a retaule , in Spanish a retablo , etc. It can ...
Usage examples of reredos.
He'd have guessed that the girl was talking about something he couldn't see from where he stood in the doorway, but it turned out a reredos was the stone screen itself.
Then he saw himself in the gross reredos mirror, his cross reflection framed in foreign bottles, a decently shaven barman in glasses, going, like Mr.
He realized that the motif in the reredos wasn't of infinity symbols, it was double lenses in frames.