Netherfront

Quick meaning: Netherfront is a noun meaning A cloth hanging that veils the front of the altar.

Meaning

A cloth hanging that veils the front of the altar.

Example Sentences

To the lowest linen cloth was attached, a band of rich material, that hung over the front of the altar and hid the attachment of the netherfront.

It seems quite possible that the 'greater sorte' of silk pictures in particular were intended to adorn an altar, either as an overfront, a netherfront or even a reredos.

The most noteworthy altar-cloths were a set given by Alice Chester, the overfront representing our Lord rising out of the Sepulchre, sometimes called our Lord's Pity, with a netherfront and two curtains all "of one work."

Word Forms

• netherfronts

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