Usually means: Cloth hanging on church lectern.
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  1. antependium: Merriam-Webster
  2. antependium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. antependium: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. antependium: Wiktionary
  6. antependium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  9. Antependium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Antependium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. antependium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Antependium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. antependium: FreeDictionary.org
  14. antependium: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. antependium: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. antependium: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (antependium)

▸ noun:  (ecclesiastical) The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal.

Similar:
frontal, parament, netherfront, superfrontal, altarcloth, pall, orphrey, altar-cloth, altar cloth, pulpitum, more...

Opposite:
postlude, posterior, backside

Types:
parclose, rood screen, choir screen, iconostasis, reredos, jubé, more...

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Similar:
frontal, parament, netherfront, superfrontal, altarcloth, pall, orphrey, altar-cloth, altar cloth, pulpitum, more...

Opposite:
postlude, posterior, backside

Types:
parclose, rood screen, choir screen, iconostasis, reredos, jubé, more...



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