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
In winter plumage: Head yellow-olive; no frontlet; black drab, with reddish tinge; shoulders and throat yellow; soiled brownish white underneath.
From Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes by Neltje Blanchan
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
A stout wooden bar is placed at the root of the horns, and so securely bound to them with thongs that the animal draws, or rather pushes, by the head and frontlet, without chafing.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou
The learned Selden, in the curious little volume of his “Table-Talk,” has delivered to posterity a precept for the learned, which they ought to wear, like the Jewish phylacteries, as “a frontlet between their eyes.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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