| Reredos 1. (n.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar. 2. (n.) The back of a fireplace. 3. (n.) The open hearth, upon which fires were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. Thesaurus Entries affusion, altar cloth, aspergation, aspersion, baldacchino, baldachin, baptism, baptismal font, baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement, cerecloth, chalice, chancel screen, chrism, chrismation, chrismatory, chrisom, christening, ciborium, corporal, cruet, extreme unction, fanon, font, holy-water font, immersion, infusion, jube, kneeling stool, last rites, monstrance, oblation cloth, ointment, ostensorium, paten, piscina, prayer rug, prie-dieu, pyx, reliquary, reredos, rood cloth, rood screen, sacrament cloth, sacramental anointment, sacred unction, sprinkling, stoup, total immersion, unction, viaticum |