overfront
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A decorative wall hanging or dorsal that sits behind the altar and matches the netherfront.
Example Sentences
- "No 2—Is the Overfront, forming a jacket that opens over the fullness."
- "The straight overfronts and back of the gown were made in Ondine silk , shot blue and faint yellow with an opalescent effect"
- "A garment of the general character described, comprising an open-front under-body shirt, and an over-front thereon consisting of a lower abdominal body portion having lateral extensions attached to the side portions of the under-body shirt, and divergent upwardly extended strap portions connected to the shoulder portions of the under-body shirt, said overfront being connected to said under-body shirt adjacent its lower edge whereby to form pockets between the under-body shirt and the over-front."
- "Or when they had four columns to hold up the overfront and riddells, these were often utilised to carry a taper on each."
- "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.""
Etymology
From over- + front.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over