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frontlet|ˈfrʌntlɪt|
Forms: 5–6 frontlett(e, (6 frountlett, 7 frontilet), 6– frontlet.
[a. OF. frontelet, dim. of frontel, fronteau frontal n.: see -let.]
1. Something worn on the forehead.
a. An ornament or band; also, a bandage worn at night to prevent or remove wrinkles.
1478in Rolls of Parlt. VI. 289 Frontlettes of blak velvet. 1502Priv. Purse Exp. Eliz. of York (1830) 68 A frontlet of golde for the Quene. c1540J. Heywood Four P.P. B j b, And they be masked in many nettes As frontlettes, fillettes, partlettes, & braceletes. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 837 They weare also frontlets of feathers: in their eares they weare bones. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 206 Holinesse to the Lord is found written..upon the high Priests frontlet. a1717Parnell To an Old Beauty 2 To please our youthful sight You sleep in cream and frontlets all the night. 1755Young Centaur vi. Wks. 1757 IV. 255 The Centaurs..wearing frontlets of brass on their foreheads. 1807Wordsw. White Doe i. 260 That Dame of haughty air..wears a frontlet edged with gold. 1866J. G. Murphy Comm. Ex. xiii. 9 The fillet or frontlet encircles the head.
fig.1605Shakes. Lear i. iv. 208 How now Daughter? what makes that Frontlet on? You are too much of late i'th'frowne. 1791Cowper Odyss. xiii. 469 As when we loosed Her radiant frontlet from the brows of Troy. 1876Swinburne Erechtheus 1396 To bind on the brows of thy godhead a frontlet of night.
b. In Exod. xiii. 16, Deut. vi. 8, or phrases referring thereto: = phylactery.
1578Bible (Genev.) Exod. xiii. 16 It shalbe as a token upon thine hande, and as frontlets betwene thine eyes. 1670L. Stucley Gossip-Glass xl. 481 Let it be as Frontlets between thine eyes day and night. 1732Swift Lett. Wks. 1841 II. 674 His [Clarendon's] books had frontlets of Scripture to recommend and sanctify all their venom. 1825Macaulay Milton Ess. (1854) 27 That sublime treatise which every statesman should wear as a sign upon his hand and as frontlets between his eyes.
†c. A cloth or bandage containing some medicament; also, the medicament itself. Obs.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme i. xii. 57 To cause them to sleepe..it is good to make a frontlet with the seede of poppie, [etc.]. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 401 To put them all together into a Frontlet or fore-head cloth. 1621–51Burton Anat. Mel. ii. v. i. vi. 396 Frontlets are well known to every good wife, Rose water and Vinegar..applied to both temples. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Eye, You are to apply to the Temples a Frontlet made with Provence Roses.
d. = front 9 c. rare—1.
1785Crabbe Newspaper 375 These flaxen frontlets with elastic springs.
e. = frontal 1 b, front-stall (see front n. 15).
1805Scott Last Minstr. i. v, Thirty steeds..Barbed with frontlet of steel. 1873Ouida Pascarel II. 89 The bullocks went on their slow ways with flowers in their leathern frontlets.
† f. A coronet. Obs.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry vi. Concl. (1611) 283 Twixt an Earle and Vicounts Frontilets The ods is like: so needlesse to be learn'd.
2. = forehead 1. Now only of animals.
1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 378 Like the smooth-faced fontes, fluvia, stagna, and lacus's of a land, that lyes with never a wrinckle upon their frontlets. 1758Dyer Fleece i. 203 A fairer species..Of shorter limb, and frontlet more ornate. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. ii, The antlered monarch of the waste..Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xxxix. 299 We can recognise the horns and frontlets of the elk. 1878G. Macdonald Phantastes vi. 88 From frontlet to tail the horse likewise shone red. 1890Boldrewood Col. Reformer (1891) 228 A very evil-looking beast..with a development of horn remarkable even in that forest of frontlets.
b. Ornith. The margin of the head, behind the bill, of birds, generally clothed with rigid bristles.
1874Coues Birds N.W. 89 The differences..are found in every sufficient series of the North American bird; thus, of two specimens, both shot at Washington, D.C., one has a whitish and the other a brown frontlet.
3. The façade of a building: = front n. 6. Also transf.
1808Scott Marm. v. xx, The antique buildings, climbing high, Whose Gothic frontlets sought the sky. 1830W. Phillips Mt. Sinai i. 338 Fair east he turn'd him, and anon attain'd The beetling frontlet of the mountain.
4. A superfrontal or cloth hanging over the upper part of an altar frontal; also, an ornamental border to an altar-cloth.
1536Reg. of Riches in Antiq. Sarisb. (1771) 199 A purpure cloth, with an ymage of the Crucifix..with a divers frontlet, having in every end two white Leopards. 1549Eng. Ch. Furniture (Peacock 1860) 246 Item on corporaxe cloth & ij tasslys. Item one lyttell frountlett of ffustyan. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 305 One frontlet may serve with a variety of frontals. 1877J. D. Chambers Div. Worship 269 Frontlets may be sewn on the front of these linen cloths so as to hang over the edge. |