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reredos
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images.
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 ).
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.