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語源

From 中期英語 reredos, from Anglo-Norman reredos, areredos; equivalent to rere (“rear”) + French dos (“back”).

発音

• IPA: (Received Pronunciation) /ˈɹiə.dɒs/, /ˈɹiɹɪdɒs/

名詞

reredos (plural reredoses)

1. (chiefly Western Christianity) A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images, akin to the iconostasis of the Eastern Churches.

   Hypernyms: screen, partition

   Coordinate terms: iconostasis; altar screen, rood screen, choir screen, jubé

   Near-synonym: retable (often synonymous)

   • 1871, The Sacristy: A Quarterly Review of Ecclesiastical Art and Literature, volume 1, London: John Hodges, page 246:

     A bad reredos will ruin the best church ever designed; and, although a good reredos cannot convert a bad church into a good one, it may do much to lessen the offensiveness of its badness.

   • 1998, Paul V. M. Flesher, “Rereading the Reredos: David, Orpheus, and Messianism in the Dura Europa Syngogue”, in Dān Ûrman, Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher, editors, Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis and Archaeological Discovery, page 363:

     Confusion has reigned in scholarly interpretation, however, because the dark-colored leaves have shown through the succeeding coats of paint across the reredos, interfering with the later scenes.

   • 2007, F. E. Howard, English Church Woodwork, page 137:

     There seem to be no remains of wooden reredoses of the fourteenth century, though there are a number of examples in stone.

2. The back of an open fire-hearth, in medieval halls and in some later architecture inspired by them.

   Coordinate term: fireback

Further reading

• reredos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Roeders, eroders, redoers, redorse

語源

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman reredos, areredos; equivalent to rere (“rear, following”) + Old French dos (“back”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈrɛːr(ə)dɔs/, /ˈrɛːr(ə)dɔːs/

名詞

reredos (plural reredosis)

1. A reredos or retable; a panel at the back of an altar.
2. A dorsal; a hanging or tapestry at the back of an altar.
3. (rare) The back of a fireplace or hearth.
4. (rare) A wood screen against the back of a chair or wall.
5. (rare) A panel of armour for protecting the rear.
6. (rare) The rearguard of an army.

派生した語

• English: reredos

参照

• “rēre-dō̆s(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 August 2018.