reredos
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To prepare for the abatement, all open surfaces in the church must be covered, including the pipe organ on the balcony and the high altar, or reredos, which holds the tabernacle.
From Washington Times ● May 13, 2018
Dr. Stires, who entered the church wearing cassock and rochet, had stood humbly before the carved reredos while his attending presbyters garbed him in a chimere.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beside the high altar, in the shadow of its towering reredos, he was enthroned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the chapel reredos is dominated by a massive cross.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would have the cloisters of Tarragona with this outlook of Gerona's; also Gerona's altar and retablo, though the reredos of Avila and that of Tarragona are worthy rivals.
From Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
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