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