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A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table
Answer for the clue "A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table ", 7 letters:
reredos
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"screen behind an altar," late 14c., from Anglo-French rere- , archaic comb. form of rear (n.), + dos "back" (see dossier ). Klein's sources suggest it is aphetic of Anglo-French areredos , from Old French arere "at the back" (Modern French arrière ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images.
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.