reredos
reredos. Ornamental facing or screen behind an altar in a church, free-standing or forming part of the retable. In larger churches it separates the choir from the retrochoir, Ladychapel, and other parts to the liturgical east, and is often found enriched with statues in niches, pinnacles, etc. Another form of medieval reredos was the triptych.
reredos
rere·dos / ˈrerəˌdäs; ˈri(ə)rə-/ • n. (pl. same) Christian Church an ornamental screen covering the wall at the back of an altar.
reredos
reredos an ornamental screen covering the wall at the back of an altar. The word comes (in late Middle English) via Anglo-Norman French from Old French areredos, from arere ‘behind’ + dos ‘back’.
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