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.

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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

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Etymology

Origin of frontlet

1425–75; late Middle English frontlet < Old French, diminutive of frontel frontal

Example Sentences

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

Antependium, an-te-pend′i-um, n. a frontlet, forecloth, frontal, or covering for an altar, of silk, satin, or velvet, often richly embroidered.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

On her forehead is the velvet frontlet, and across her forehead is a veil stretched on wires.

From English Costume by Calthrop, Dion Clayton

There were also metal ornaments for the head, the stephan�, or coronal, and the ampyx, a headband or frontlet.

From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell

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 Swinburne, Algernon Charles