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How to use retable in a sentence

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The entire piece is supported by a predella on the altar, which raises the retable from the altar table.
Their legacy to later generations included a retable, bishop's throne and high altar.
For the plenary my group decided to retable some amendments that came from the Members of the committee that is knowledgeable on the subject.
This morning a Liberal senator, working with a radical animal rights group, announced his plans to retable a bill to end the seal hunt.
Through the screen's open central doorway a carved retable can be seen, but the altar itself is obscured by two angels who occupy the space, singing from a book.
It should be slightly smaller but it would just have been gesture politics to retable the amendment we put in the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market since it was obviously not going to be carried.
The earliest documented Latin American sculptural work was in the retable in the monastery church at Huejotzingo, Mexico, assembled in 1586 by the Spaniard Pedro de Requeña.
By the late Gothic period in Spain, the retable filled the end of the church up to the vaulting, and, of course, at this size it could no longer be moved.
About 1586 Pereyns made the retable of Huejotzingo the only retable he worked on that remains intact with Concha, sculptor Pedro de Requena, and goldsmith Marcos de San Pedro.
Examples from Classical Literature
The retable has two miracle reliefs, and between them a small bronze Christ, which has been put there in error.
The candlesticks, in churches where lights at the Holy Communion are used, stand at the ends of the retable.
In the ancient Abbey Church are two masterpieces, a retable in carved wood and a tomb ornamented with exquisite statuettes.
Another exquisite example of wood carving may be seen in the chapel of Notre-Dame de Compassion, forming the retable.
On the retable at the foot of the reredos, stand two massive candlesticks of silver gilt.
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