"netherfront" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From nether- + front.",
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      "form": "netherfronts",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1904, Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, page 258:",
          "text": "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.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1904, Essays on Ceremonial, page 7:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Sarah Hamilton, Andrew Spicer, Defining the Holy:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A cloth hanging that veils the front of the altar."
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  "word": "netherfront"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From nether- + front.",
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    {
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1904, Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, page 258:",
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        },
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          "ref": "1904, Essays on Ceremonial, page 7:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2016, Sarah Hamilton, Andrew Spicer, Defining the Holy:",
          "text": "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.",
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  "word": "netherfront"
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