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rood screen

noun as in church furnishing

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The team also recovered well-preserved painted sculptures and many pieces of the medieval rood screen, which once divided congregants from clergy until it was demolished under Louis XIV.

There’s another reference that says a clock was installed above the rood screen of a church.

Visitors wander around the cathedral, many craning their necks to take in the details of the roof or the dominating rood screen.

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Beyond the house, the road meandered upward past more villas, then dustily through a cluster of old cottages around the medieval parish church, which had a distinguished rood screen.

This panel hung for many years behind the rood screen of a small church in rural Belgium, but its current whereabouts are unknown.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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