frontlet
Americannoun
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Also a decorative band, ribbon, or the like, worn across the forehead.
The princess wore a richly bejeweled frontlet.
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the forehead of an animal.
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Ornithology. the forehead when marked by a different color or texture of the plumage.
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Judaism. the phylactery worn on the forehead.
noun
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Also called: frontal. a small decorative loop worn on a woman's forehead, projecting from under her headdress, in the 15th century
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the forehead of an animal, esp of a bird when it is a different colour from the rest of the head
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the decorated border of an altar frontal
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Judaism a phylactery worn on the forehead See also tefillah
Etymology
Origin of frontlet
1425–75; late Middle English frontlet < Old French, diminutive of frontel frontal
Example Sentences
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King Charles II further ordered that Queen Cockacoeske be given a crown with a silver frontlet, jewelry and royal garments to symbolize her authority as queen.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2021
Was it she who had attached the rosette of ribbons to the bridle, to recall the flowers of the grenadine which in happier times she had placed upon his frontlet?
From The Tiger Hunter by Mayne Reid
A vicious-looking brute he appeared, with shaggy frontlet and scowling lurid eye.
From The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico by L. Evans
And would'st thou have me in that mirror look, Shadowing the first page in thy destiny, Or weave a frontlet to Fate's Album-book?
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
Coke pulled up, took good aim, and fired; but unluckily, the bullet which was meant for the bison’s shoulder caught him on the frontlet, his most hopelessly invulnerable part.
From Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America by H. W. G. Hyrst
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