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retable

[ri-tey-buhl, ree-tey-] / rɪˈteɪ bəl, ˈriˌteɪ- /
NOUN
altar
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Adjoining the Abbey is the Church, which possesses at least one chef-d'oeuvre in its retable.

From Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards

An immense retable is placed at the head of the nave.

From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

She sits on a very beautiful throne, and has a large, rich, and well-gilded retable, given by Antonio Xuarez de Puga, who was many years her steward.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 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, Volume XXX, 1640 by Antonio Alvarez de Abreu

Altar Lights.—Two candles in candlesticks placed on the retable of the Altar and lighted at the celebration of the Holy Eucharist; frequently called Eucharistic Lights.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William James Miller

This is a retable of the conventional orthodox form which occupies the usual place—even in this Protestant church—at the end of the choir.

From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield




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