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† ˈfronture Obs.
Also 5 frunture.
[altered form (after words with suffix -ure) of frontier.]
= frontier.
1417Ld. Furnyval in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 58 A bridge..sett in the fronture of the borders of the Irish enimies. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy) 18 And last was wryten in the ffrontures ‘I schalle ffullefille him withe joy’ [etc.]. 1452Paston Lett. I. 237 Charlys Nowel, Otywell Nowell, Robert Ledeham..kepe a frunture and a forslet at the hows of the seid Robert Ledeham, and issu ought at her pleser. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xvii. §7. 97 Placed in the fronture of this Chapter. |