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Altar screen
Answer for the clue "Altar screen ", 7 letters:
reredos
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table [syn: altarpiece ]
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.