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reredos
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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 ...
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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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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.