the base of an altarpiece, often decorated with small paintings or reliefs.
Origin: 1840–50; < It < Langobardic *predel,*pretel, deriv. of *pret- board < Gmc *bret- (> OHG brët (G Brett), OE, OS bred board, plank; akin to board); conformed in It to the dim. suffix -ella-elle
[pri-del-uh; It. pre-del-lah] 
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