Well, it's new to me...don't even remember hearing it before. Maybe they were saying "reredos" when I thought they were saying "rear of us..."
rere·dos
Pronunciation: \ˈrer-ə-ˌdäs also ˈrir-ə-ˌdäs or ˈrir-ˌdäs\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French reredors, areredos, from arere behind + dos back, from Latin dorsum — more at arrear
Date: 14th century
: a usually ornamental wood or stone screen or partition wall behind an altar
reredos
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Re: reredos
Rats. I thought it was a word for things done over again again.Well, it's new to me...don't even remember hearing it before. Maybe they were saying "reredos" when I thought they were saying "rear of us..."
rere·dos
Pronunciation: \ˈrer-ə-ˌdäs also ˈrir-ə-ˌdäs or ˈrir-ˌdäs\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French reredors, areredos, from arere behind + dos back, from Latin dorsum — more at arrear
Date: 14th century
: a usually ornamental wood or stone screen or partition wall behind an altar
well it is when I use it...
Surely some here will remember the episode of Rocky the Flying Squirrel where we learned that if one side's response to a missle was an anti-missile missile, then the other side's counter response must be an anti-anti-missile-missile missile...
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots! Knife no one, fink!
Re: reredos
Well, if you think of it as relative to going to Sunday Mass...Rats. I thought it was a word for things done over again again.
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- Great Grand Panjandrum
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Re: reredos
Stargzer hears the mournful tune as sung by Marty Robbins:
As I went walking past the altar's reredos,
As I walked by the reredos one day,
I spied a young deacon all dressed in white linen,
Dressed in white linen as cold as the clay.
Regards//Larry
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