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Webster 1913 Edition


Altarpiece

Al′tar-pieceˊ

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Noun.
The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

Definition 2024


altarpiece

altarpiece

English

Noun

altarpiece (plural altarpieces)

  1. a work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church
    • I walked across the concrete to examine the altarpiece of the atomic age. A large crack ran through it. Atomic John: A truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs, David Samuels December, The New Yorker, 15, 2008

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