Middle English Dictionary Entry
rēre-dō̆s(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | rēre-dō̆s(e n. Also reredoce, rerdos(e, -dorce, reardosse, rierdos, rerodos & reddos, redose. |
| Etymology | AF areredos (see RParl.3.431b); for the form rerdorce cp. ML retrodorsum; for sense (b) cp. nethere dose (s.v. nether(e adj. 1.(b)) & overdose n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A decorated screen or facing behind an altar, a reredos; also, a choir screen; (b) a decorated cloth hung behind an altar, a dossal; (c) a masonry backing for an open fireplace; (d) a section of wood paneling attached to a wall, serving as a backing for a seat or as an ornament over a fireplace; (e) a piece of plate armor for the back; (f) the rear of an army.
Associated quotations
a
- (1372-3) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99180 : In contr. facta pro le rerdose ad magnum altare in ecclesia..14 d.
- (1376-7) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.103585 : In exp..pro cariacione del Rerdos..5 s.
- (1377-8) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.103587 : Homini custodienti 1 domum..ubi lapides del Rerdos positi fuerunt, 20 d.
- (1415) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.3536 : In lxvj virgis panni linei vocati westwall emptis de Thoma del More pro le rerdorce magni altaris, 22 s. 4 d.
- (1419) Will York in Sur.Soc.4396 : Ut isti libri vendantur, et precium..in ornamentum summi Altaris..videlicet Reredose, totaliter convertatur.
- (1423-4) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100464 : De magistro Thoma Rome pro mundacione del reredose, 20 d.
- (1446) Doc.Durham in Sur.Soc.9p.cclxxiii : Novum opus vocatum le Rerdoose, ad ostium chori, se extendit ad lxix l. iiij s.
- (1447-8) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1355 : The seide bodie of the Chirch shal be lenger than is the quere fro the reredos atte the high auter vnto the quere dore by ix fete.
- (1447-8) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1369 : A reredos beryng the Rodeloft departyng the quere and the body of the chirch.
- (a1450) in Willis & C.Cambridge 1366 : The hye auter..schall conteyne..in brede iiijor fote an a half with oute the Reredoce..a boue in the seyd Reredoce in the myddes to be sett a grete ymage of oure Savyoure with the xij postoles.
- (1452) Will Duffeld in Sur.Soc.35351 : 20 l. pro perfeccione deauracionis les reardosse.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4919 : I yeve and be qwethe x marks to the peyntyng rerdoos and table at Seynt Marie avter of the story of Magnificat.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4939 : I wil that in no wyse..myn executours suffir neyther awtir, reddos, ne arche of the wyndowe to be steryd.
- (1463) Will Bury in Camd.4939 : I wil my executours..if nede be to reyse vp the rerdoos a foote or ij heygher.
- (1465) Will York in Sur.Soc.30270 : Lego..pro ornacione picturae del reredose supra summam altare..x s.
b
- (1382) Doc.Durham in Sur.Soc.9p.cliii : Recepimus eciam..unum rerdose broudatum cum crucifixo et imaginibus.
- (1414) Will York in Sur.Soc.4378 : Lego ad summum altare..iij albas cum duobus tuniculis, j chesiple..j fronturam, et j reredose.
- (1415) Invent.Agincourt in Archaeol.7098 : j Celur cum j reredos..j reredos cum j frount et ij curtyns de Tartarin viridi radiato.
- (1447) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 11116 : Item, ij Reredose of Sylk for an Autern palyd wt yelow & grene.
- (1448) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 1214 : Item, a frontell of blew & grene baudkyn..to heng under ye same frontell wt a reredose of yesame to henth abow the Auteer wt a crucifyx.
- (1450) Lin.DDoc.39/4 : I besett to Richard Clarell a apparell for a auter, that is, a Reredose red of clothe of Sylk with a Crucifix therupon.
c
- (1393) Acc.Exped.Der.in Camd.n.s.52219/8 : Item, pro factura de ij rakks..Item, pro factura j reredos pro eisdem.
- (1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.147/221 : Robert Smyth dede paie of his owne good x li. for to departe þe hous yn diuerse Chambres..with pavyng of þe kechon and makyng of þe ston wall for þe reredose.
- (1432-3) Doc.Merchant York in Sur.Soc.12938 : Item, for makyng of the rerdose in the kechyn in the Trinite halle, v lade clay, v d.
- (1455) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)360 : Paye for herthis makynge and reredosis with pavmente in the kechyn and settynge of the rakkes, xlvij s. ij d. ob.
d
- (1387) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.130 : [A] rierdos [of] Estrichbord [18 feet long, 13 s. 4 d.].
- (1396-7) Mem.Ripon in Sur.Soc.81123 : In iij vayneschotes emp. pro j selour, et j reredos facta in camera capituli, 18 d.
- (1452-3) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99277 : Pro le sylorynge domus rasture et le rerdose ibidem, 14 s. 8 d.
e
- (1405) Doc.York in Sur.Soc.359 fn. : [To his brother Richard he leaves..a breast-plate with] rerodos, [a pair of] rerebraces, [etc.].
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.62 : Some chose..For to be sure myd of al her foos An hol brest-plate with a rere-doos Be-hynde schet.
f
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)251/6 : Þe forsaide Erl Marchal was al aredy wiþ his bataile at þe redose of þe Erl of Lancastre forto haue fouȝten wiþ him and wiþ his folc.