reredos

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The adornment, furnishings, ornaments, sacred vessels, altars, and reredoses correspond to the reality of the name.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

In the discharge signed by João de Ruão in 1549 reredoses are spoken of as worked by him.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

The whole surface has been covered with exquisite arabesques like those below the reredoses in the cloister at Santa Cruz, but they have now almost entirely perished.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

In the Church of England we sometimes find it in reredoses and stained glass.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

"So," says DIVINITY, "have mine left wholesome exhortation, ma'am, For credence-tables, reredoses, rood-lofts, and maceration, ma'am."

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James