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Reredos   Listen
noun
Reredos  n.  (Arch.)
(a)
A screen or partition wall behind an altar.
(b)
The back of a fireplace.
(c)
The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. (Also spelled reredosse)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Reredos" Quotes from Famous Books



... trespassed upon the unfenced gardens, and inflicted serious damage. The chapel, which was under his control, was of the usual kind, and at the same time rough and exceedingly gaudy, the pulpit being gilded throughout its surface, and the reredos glittering with gold and tawdry pictures of the lowest style of art, representing the various saints, including a very fat St. George and the meekest possible dragon. Our old friend had never seen a British sovereign with the St. George, and was vastly pleased when he discovered that his saint ...
— Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879 • Sir Samuel W. Baker



Words linked to "Reredos" :   altarpiece



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