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

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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

Still on her scornful face, Blushing with deep disgrace, Bore she the crimson trace Of Olaf's gauntlet; Like a malignant star, Blazing in heaven afar, Red shone the angry scar Under her frontlet.

From Tales of a Wayside Inn by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

And the damsel was clad in garments of yellow silk and she wore a frontlet of gold upon her head, and she wore shoes of variegated leather with latchets of gold upon her feet.

From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Pyle, Howard

Behold his body girt with gold, And hark the pride of bells along The frontlet of that targe's hold.

From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes

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 Roby, John