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reredos
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun reredos has 1 sense
- reredos(n = noun.artifact) altarpiece - a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table; Array is a kind of screen
CIDE DICTIONARY
reredos, n. [From rear + F. dos back, L. dorsum. Cf. Dorsal.].
A screen or partition wall behind an altar. Fairholt. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
reredos, n. Eccl. an ornamental screen covering the wall at the back of an altar.
Etymology
ME f. AF f. OF areredos f. arere behind + dos back: cf. ARREARS
ROGET THESAURUS
reredos
Temple
N temple, place of worship, house of God, house of prayer, temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory, synagogue, mosque, marabout, pantheon, pagoda, joss house, dogobah, tope, kiosk, kiack, masjid, parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe, Vatican, bishop's palace, Lambeth, altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, sacrarium, communion table, holy table, Lord's table, table of the Lord, pyx, baptistery, font, piscina, stoup, aumbry, sedile, reredos, rood loft, rood screen, chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher, stall, pew, pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino, apse, belfry, chapter house, presbytery, anxious-bench, anxious-seat, diaconicum, jube, mourner's bench, mourner's seat, cloisters, churchyard, monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister, claustral, cloistered, monastic, monasterial, conventual, ne vile fano, there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.
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