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Ornamental screen behind a church altar
Answer for the clue "Ornamental screen behind a church altar ", 7 letters:
reredos
Alternative clues for the word reredos
- A painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table
- Ornamental altar screens
- Decoration behind an altar
- Taking time, restored tattered screen
- Screen has crimson centre and unusual rose edging
- Church wall decoration
- Ornamental wall behind an altar
- Screen behind a church altar
Word definitions for reredos in dictionaries
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 ...
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.