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reredos

Postby skinem » Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:56 pm

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

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Re: reredos

Postby sluggo » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:07 am

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
Rats. I thought it was a word for things done over again again. :roll:

well it is when I use it...

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Re: reredos

Postby gailr » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:01 am

Rats. I thought it was a word for things done over again again. :roll:
Well, if you think of it as relative to going to Sunday Mass...

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Re: reredos

Postby Stargzer » Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:34 pm

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.
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