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    reredos
    A screen or partition wall behind an altar. ... The back of a fireplace. ... The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. [Also spelt reredosse. ... Origin: From rear + F. Dos back, L. Dorsum. Cf. Dorsal. ... Source: Websters Dictionar...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?reredos
    
    
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    Reredos
    • (n.) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. • (n.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar. • (n.) The back of a fireplace.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/reredos/
    
    
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    reredos
    (from the article `altarpiece`) ...more panels. A winged altarpiece is one equipped with movable wings that can be opened or closed over a fixed central part, thereby allowing ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/r/35
    
    
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    Reredos
    A reredos or raredos is an altarpiece, or a screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images. In French and sometimes in English, this is called a retable; in Spanish a retablo, etc. It can be made of stone, wood, metal, ivory, or a combination of...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reredos
    
    
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    Reredos
    In architecture the term reredos refers to a number of things: a screen or partition wall behind an altar (altarpiece); the back of a fireplace; the open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louvre, in the centre of ancient halls. For more than 1000 years the episcopal seats ...
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/TR.HTM
    
    
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    Reredos
    An elaborate wall carving or screen utilized primarily on or behind the high Altar.
    Found op http://www.artisansofthevalley.com/comm_gloss3.html
    
    
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    reredos
    reredos (rēr'dos) , ornamented wall or screen that rises behind the high altar of a church, forming a background for it. It may be placed against the apse wall at the extreme end or directly behind the altar, as in certain English churches where it serves to separate the choir and the retr...
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0841574.html
    
    
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    reredos
    In a church, the ornamental screen behind the altar.
    Found op http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/pg_glossary.php
    
    
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    reredos
    1) Altar screen 2) Altarpiece 3) Church screen 4) Decoration behind an altar 5) Ornamental altar screens 6) Ornamental wall behind an altar 7) Screen
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/reredos/1
    
    

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