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Teredos vs Reredos - What's the difference?

teredos | reredos |

As nouns the difference between teredos and reredos

is that teredos is while reredos is a screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images.

teredos

English

Noun

(head)

    • reredos

    English

    (wikipedia reredos)

    Noun

    (reredoses)
  • A screen or decoration behind the altar in a church, usually depicting religious iconography or images.
  • * 1871 , The Sacristy: A Quarterly Review of Ecclesiastical Art and Literature , Volume 1, John Hodges, London, 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'', D?n 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.

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