Reredos

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A decorative screen or facing on the wall at the back of an altar; a retable.
  • n. The back of an open hearth of a fireplace.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A screen or partition wall behind an altar.
  • n. The back of a fireplace.
  • n. The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In architecture, the back of a fireplace, or of an open fire-hearth, as commonly used in domestic halls of medieval times and the Renaissance; the iron plate often forming the back of a fireplace in which andirons are used.
  • n. A screen or a decorated part of the wall behind an altar in a church, especially when the altar does not stand free, but against the wall; an altarpiece. Compare altarpiece and retable.
  • n. In medieval armor, same as backpiece.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    screen   
    Variant
    reredosse   
     
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