dossal

The beautiful dossal, or ornamented cloth suspended behind an altar.

The dossal is used where there is no reredos and usually is of the Church color for the Festival or Season.

Sometimes a painting takes its place, or a dossal—a decorated curtain of as rich material as circumstances will allow.

Leaning heavily upon the lady, at the end he won to her maiden's chamber, where there was a fair bed covered with a rich dossal of broidered silk, edged with fur.

I called in many a craftsmaster ������To fix emblazoned glass, To figure Cross and Sepulchre ������On dossal, boss, and brass.