frontlet

American  

[fruhnt-lit] / ˈfrʌnt lɪt /

noun

1. Also a decorative band, ribbon, or the like, worn across the forehead.

   The princess wore a richly bejeweled frontlet.

2. the forehead of an animal.

3. Ornithology. the forehead when marked by a different color or texture of the plumage.

4. Judaism. the phylactery worn on the forehead.

---

frontlet British  

/ ˈfrʌntlɪt /

noun

1. Also called: frontal. a small decorative loop worn on a woman's forehead, projecting from under her headdress, in the 15th century

2. the forehead of an animal, esp of a bird when it is a different colour from the rest of the head

3. the decorated border of an altar frontal

4. 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

See Examples For:

frontlet

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

At last a frontlet with feathers sticking in it for the head.

From Thirty Indian Legends by Margaret Bemister

The frontlet and barb were pieces of white linen, the former worn over the forehead, the latter over the chin.

From Mistress Margery by Emily Sarah Holt

Their hate is as their loving-kindness; The frontlet of their brows is blindness, The armlet of their arms is death.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne

The crested leader, proud and high, Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky, A moment gazed adown the dale, A moment snuffed the tainted gale; Then, as the headmost foe appeared.

From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Gordon Stables

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

---