Antependium: alternatives and connections

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

A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.

Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures.

Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as, Babylonic garments, carpets, or hangings.

Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.

To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal.

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.

To march back, or to march in reversed order.

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cl…

Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.

A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, b…

A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stou…

To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other.

The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.

Belonging to the front part; being in front