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frontlet
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun frontlet has 1 sense
- frontlet(n = noun.artifact) frontal - an adornment worn on the forehead; Array is a kind of adornment
CIDE DICTIONARY
- A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. [1913 Webster]"They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes." [1913 Webster]
- A frown (likened to a frontlet). [1913 Webster]"What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown." [1913 Webster]
- The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
frontlet, n.
1 a piece of cloth hanging over the upper part of an altar frontal.
2 a band worn on the forehead.
3 a phylactery.
4 an animal's forehead.
1 a piece of cloth hanging over the upper part of an altar frontal.
2 a band worn on the forehead.
3 a phylactery.
4 an animal's forehead.
Etymology
OF frontelet (as FRONTAL(2))
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