noun
- plural of reredos; ornamental screens or walls behind church altars
Usage: architectural; ecclesiastical
Examples
- The cathedral featured elaborate carved reredoses behind each of its side altars.
- Medieval reredoses often depicted biblical scenes in intricate detail.
- The restoration project focused on cleaning the stone reredoses.
- Gothic churches are known for their magnificent reredoses.
- The museum displayed photographs of famous reredoses from European cathedrals.
- Art historians studied the iconography of the church’s ancient reredoses.