Reredos

/ˈɹiə.dɒs/

Synonyms for "reredos" (5 found)

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Noun(1 words)
altar screen

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Noun(1 words)

Related words (2)

Noun(1 words)

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altar furniturearchitectural elementscreen

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gilded reredosstone reredoswooden reredos

Collocations

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carved reredosgilded reredosornate reredospanelled reredosstone reredoswooden reredos

Inflections

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Sample sentences

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Near-synonym: retable (often synonymous)

Source: wiktionary

A bad reredos will ruin the best church ever designed; and, although a good reredos cannot convert a bad church into a good one, it may do much to lessen the offensiveness of its badness.

Source: wiktionary

Confusion has reigned in scholarly interpretation, however, because the dark-colored leaves have shown through the succeeding coats of paint across the reredos, interfering with the later scenes.

Source: wiktionary

There seem to be no remains of wooden reredoses of the fourteenth century, though there are a number of examples in stone.

Source: wiktionary

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