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

It readied the frontlet of the bull; but the latter, with a disdainful toss of his head, flung it to one side, and stood fronting his adversary, as watchful of his movements as ever.

From The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains by Mayne Reid

Its face, however, was of a deeper brown around the bases of the horns and over the frontlet tinged with rufous.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid

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

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 Howard Pyle