retable
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from French retable, ultimately from Medieval Latin retrotabulum.
Noun[edit]
retable (plural retables)
Translations[edit]
table or shelf behind an altar
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Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
retable (third-person singular simple present retables, present participle retabling, simple past and past participle retabled)
- (transitive) To table again.
- Politicians are keen to retable the bill.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of Old Occitan retaule. Compare Catalan retaule.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
retable m (plural retables)
Further reading[edit]
- “retable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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