frontletn.

/ˈfrʌntlɪt/

Forms: Middle English–1500s frontlett(e, (1500s frountlett, 1600s frontilet), 1500s– frontlet.

Etymology: < Old French frontelet, diminutive of frontel , fronteau frontal n.: see -let suffix.

1. Something worn on the forehead.

a. An ornament or band; also, a bandage worn at night to prevent or remove wrinkles.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > masks used to protect the complexion

frontlet1478

looa1685

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > head- or hair-band > types of

frontalc1320

mitrea1382

counter-filletc1430

frontlet1478

mitra1638

head-tie1669

sévigné1826

sweat-rag1843

sphendone1850

agal1853

sweat-band1891

Alice band1944

1478 in Rolls of Parl. VI. 289 Frontlettes of blak velvet.

1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 68 A frontlet of golde for the Quene.

?1544 J. Heywood Foure PP sig. B.i^v And they be masked in many nettes As frontlettes, fyllettes, parlettes, and barcelettes.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 837 They weare also frontlets of feathers: in their eares they weare bones.

1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 206 Holinesse to the Lord is found written..upon the high Priests frontlet.

a1717 T. Parnell Elegy to Old Beauty 2 To please our youthful sight You sleep in cream and frontlets all the night.

1755 E. Young Centaur vi, in Wks. (1757) IV. 255 The Centaurs..wearing frontlets of brass on their foreheads.

1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone i. 17 That Dame of haughty air,..wears a frontlet edged with gold.

1866 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Exodus xiii. 9 The fillet or frontlet encircles the head.

figurative.1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 183 How now daughter, what makes that Frontlet on, Me thinks you are too much alate it'h frowne. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xiii. 469 As when we loosed Her radiant frontlet from the brows of Troy.1876 A. C. Swinburne Erechtheus 1396 To bind on the brows of thy godhead a frontlet of night.

b. In Exodus xiii. 16, Deuteronomy vi. 8, or phrases referring thereto: = phylactery n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > lay garments > items of attire > [noun] > phylactery

phylacteryc1384

frontlet1578

1578 Bible (Geneva) Exod. xiii. 16 It shalbe as a token upon thine hande, and as frontlets betwene thine eyes.

1670 L. Stuckley Gospel-glasse xl. 481 Let it be as Frontlets between thine eyes day and night.

1732 C. Wogan Let. to Swift 27 Feb. in J. Swift Wks. (1803) XVIII. 201 His [sc. Clarendon's] books had frontlets of Scripture to recommend and sanctify all their venom.

1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 344 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. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > poultice, plaster, or compress

plasterOE

clydec1325

emplastera1382

entretea1400

pottagea1400

poulticea1400

faldellac1400

treatc1400

Gratia Dei?a1425

magdaleon?a1425

strictorya1425

grace of Godc1450

emplastrum?1541

malagma?1541

sparadrap1543

spasmadrap?a1547

plasture?1550

mustard plaster1562

cataplasm1563

oint-plaster1578

quilt1583

compress1599

compression1599

diachylum-plaster1599

pulment1599

pulvinar1599

frontlet1600

sinapism1601

epithemation1615

diapalma1646

opodeldoc1646

attraction1656

treacle plaster1659

melilot emplaster1676

stay1676

oxycroceum1696

melilot plaster1712

adhesive1753

bag1753

mustard poultice1765

soap plaster1789

water dressing1830

poor man's plaster1833

compressor1851

spongiopiline1851

vinegar-poultice1854

water-strapping1854

pitch-plaster1858

jacket poultice1862

mustard leaf1869

mustard paper1874

piline1874

plaster-mull1890

mustard cloth1897

plaster-muslin1899

antiphlogistin1901

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xii. 57 To cause them to sleepe..it is good to make a frontlet with the seede of poppie, [etc.].

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 515 To put them altogither into a Frontlet or fore-head cloath.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. i. vi. 478 Frontlets are well knowne to euery good wife, Rosewater and Vinegar..applied to both temples.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Eye You are to apply to the Temples a Frontlet made with Provence Roses.

d. = front n. 9c. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > practice of wearing artificial hair > [noun] > artificial hair > section or lock of

sidelock1530

lock1601

tour1674

snake1676

front1693

bull-tour1724

back-head1731

ramillies tail1782

frontlet1785

frisette1818

toupee1862

postiche1867

switch1870

pin-curl1873

scalpette1881

wig-tail1888

chichi1906

hairpiece1939

fall1943

toup1959

1785 G. Crabbe News-paper 23 These flaxen frontlets with elastic springs.

e. = frontal n. 1b, front-stall (see front n. Compounds 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for horse > [noun] > for head

testerc1386

cheveronnec1420

chamfron1465

shaffron1465

headpiece1530

chaffron1547

frontal1587

chieffront1598

frontlet1805

front-stall1825

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle > parts of

headstallc1330

trench1480

stalk1497

musrol1551

head-strain?1561

water-chain?1561

throat band1585

cavesson1598

mullen1598

nose bit?a1600

front-stall1601

ampyx1607

chain1607

fillet1607

cheek-band1611

cheekpiece1611

noseband1611

throat thong1611

headpiece1678

throatlatch1693

headband1704

trenchefil1730

bridoon1744

banquet1753

head1756

cheek1795

throat strap1803

frontlet1805

throat-lash1805

cheekstrap1834

brow-band1844

nosepiece1865

shank1879

1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. v. 11 Thirty steeds..Barbed with frontlet of steel.

1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl II. 89 The bullocks went on their slow ways with flowers in their leathern frontlets.

†f. A coronet. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery worn on the head > [noun] > coronet or circlet

mindOE

crownOE

diademc1290

coronalc1330

circlea1340

garland?a1366

coronaclea1400

crowneta1425

crownalc1443

chapleta1464

circlet1481

cronet1519

cronicle1569

graundcie1592

anadem1598

coronet1599

carcanet1602

frontlet1610

circuita1616

rosary1651

tiar1660

tiara1718

ferronière1831

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie vi. Concl. 283 Twixt an Earle and Vicounts Frontilets The ods is like: so needlesse to be learn'd.

a. = forehead n. 1. Now only of animals.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > forehead

foreheadc1000

frontlet1659

front1826

1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 378 Like the smooth-faced fontes, fluvia, stagna, and lacus's of a land, that lyes with never a wrinckle upon their frontlets.

1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 14 A fairer species..Of shorter limb, and frontlet more ornate.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 6 The antler'd monarch of the waste..Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. xvi. 259 We can recognise the horns and frontlets of the elk.

1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes 65 From frontlet to tail, the horse likewise shone red.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 228 A very evil-looking beast..with a development of horn remarkable even in that forest of frontlets.

b. Ornithology. The margin of the head, behind the bill, of birds, generally clothed with rigid bristles.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > head > part of

pileum1872

frontlet1874

cap1889

pileus1890

1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 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 transferred.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > façade

frontispiece1598

frontal1786

frontlet1808

1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xx. 271 The antique buildings, climbing high, Whose Gothic frontlets sought the sky.

1830 W. 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > altar cloth > [noun] > border of

frontlet1536

society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > altar cloth > [noun] > at front > over upper part

frontlet1536

frontier1618

superfrontal1847

1536 Reg. Riches Cathedral of Sarum in E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses (1771) 199 A purpure cloth, with an ymage of the Crucifix..with a divers frontlet, having in every end two white Leopards.

1549 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 246 Item on corporaxe cloth & ij tasslys. Item one lyttell frountlett of ffustyan.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 305 One frontlet may serve with a variety of frontals.

1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 269 Frontlets may be sewn on the front of these linen cloths so as to hang over the edge.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	frontlet
释义	frontletn. /ˈfrʌntlɪt/ Forms: Middle English–1500s frontlett(e, (1500s frountlett, 1600s frontilet), 1500s– frontlet. Etymology: < Old French frontelet, diminutive of frontel , fronteau frontal n.: see -let suffix. 1. Something worn on the forehead. a. An ornament or band; also, a bandage worn at night to prevent or remove wrinkles. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > masks used to protect the complexion frontlet1478 looa1685 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > head- or hair-band > types of frontalc1320 mitrea1382 counter-filletc1430 frontlet1478 mitra1638 head-tie1669 sévigné1826 sweat-rag1843 sphendone1850 agal1853 sweat-band1891 Alice band1944 1478 in Rolls of Parl. VI. 289 Frontlettes of blak velvet. 1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 68 A frontlet of golde for the Quene. ?1544 J. Heywood Foure PP sig. B.i^v And they be masked in many nettes As frontlettes, fyllettes, parlettes, and barcelettes. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 837 They weare also frontlets of feathers: in their eares they weare bones. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 206 Holinesse to the Lord is found written..upon the high Priests frontlet. a1717 T. Parnell Elegy to Old Beauty 2 To please our youthful sight You sleep in cream and frontlets all the night. 1755 E. Young Centaur vi, in Wks. (1757) IV. 255 The Centaurs..wearing frontlets of brass on their foreheads. 1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone i. 17 That Dame of haughty air,..wears a frontlet edged with gold. 1866 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Exodus xiii. 9 The fillet or frontlet encircles the head. figurative.1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 183 How now daughter, what makes that Frontlet on, Me thinks you are too much alate it'h frowne. View more context for this quotation1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xiii. 469 As when we loosed Her radiant frontlet from the brows of Troy.1876 A. C. Swinburne Erechtheus 1396 To bind on the brows of thy godhead a frontlet of night. b. In Exodus xiii. 16, Deuteronomy vi. 8, or phrases referring thereto: = phylactery n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > lay garments > items of attire > [noun] > phylactery phylacteryc1384 frontlet1578 1578 Bible (Geneva) Exod. xiii. 16 It shalbe as a token upon thine hande, and as frontlets betwene thine eyes. 1670 L. Stuckley Gospel-glasse xl. 481 Let it be as Frontlets between thine eyes day and night. 1732 C. Wogan Let. to Swift 27 Feb. in J. Swift Wks. (1803) XVIII. 201 His [sc. Clarendon's] books had frontlets of Scripture to recommend and sanctify all their venom. 1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 344 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. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for treating wound or ulcer > [noun] > poultice, plaster, or compress plasterOE clydec1325 emplastera1382 entretea1400 pottagea1400 poulticea1400 faldellac1400 treatc1400 Gratia Dei?a1425 magdaleon?a1425 strictorya1425 grace of Godc1450 emplastrum?1541 malagma?1541 sparadrap1543 spasmadrap?a1547 plasture?1550 mustard plaster1562 cataplasm1563 oint-plaster1578 quilt1583 compress1599 compression1599 diachylum-plaster1599 pulment1599 pulvinar1599 frontlet1600 sinapism1601 epithemation1615 diapalma1646 opodeldoc1646 attraction1656 treacle plaster1659 melilot emplaster1676 stay1676 oxycroceum1696 melilot plaster1712 adhesive1753 bag1753 mustard poultice1765 soap plaster1789 water dressing1830 poor man's plaster1833 compressor1851 spongiopiline1851 vinegar-poultice1854 water-strapping1854 pitch-plaster1858 jacket poultice1862 mustard leaf1869 mustard paper1874 piline1874 plaster-mull1890 mustard cloth1897 plaster-muslin1899 antiphlogistin1901 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xii. 57 To cause them to sleepe..it is good to make a frontlet with the seede of poppie, [etc.]. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 515 To put them altogither into a Frontlet or fore-head cloath. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. i. vi. 478 Frontlets are well knowne to euery good wife, Rosewater and Vinegar..applied to both temples. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Eye You are to apply to the Temples a Frontlet made with Provence Roses. d. = front n. 9c. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > practice of wearing artificial hair > [noun] > artificial hair > section or lock of sidelock1530 lock1601 tour1674 snake1676 front1693 bull-tour1724 back-head1731 ramillies tail1782 frontlet1785 frisette1818 toupee1862 postiche1867 switch1870 pin-curl1873 scalpette1881 wig-tail1888 chichi1906 hairpiece1939 fall1943 toup1959 1785 G. Crabbe News-paper 23 These flaxen frontlets with elastic springs. e. = frontal n. 1b, front-stall (see front n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for horse > [noun] > for head testerc1386 cheveronnec1420 chamfron1465 shaffron1465 headpiece1530 chaffron1547 frontal1587 chieffront1598 frontlet1805 front-stall1825 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle > parts of headstallc1330 trench1480 stalk1497 musrol1551 head-strain?1561 water-chain?1561 throat band1585 cavesson1598 mullen1598 nose bit?a1600 front-stall1601 ampyx1607 chain1607 fillet1607 cheek-band1611 cheekpiece1611 noseband1611 throat thong1611 headpiece1678 throatlatch1693 headband1704 trenchefil1730 bridoon1744 banquet1753 head1756 cheek1795 throat strap1803 frontlet1805 throat-lash1805 cheekstrap1834 brow-band1844 nosepiece1865 shank1879 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel i. v. 11 Thirty steeds..Barbed with frontlet of steel. 1873 ‘Ouida’ Pascarèl II. 89 The bullocks went on their slow ways with flowers in their leathern frontlets. †f. A coronet. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery worn on the head > [noun] > coronet or circlet mindOE crownOE diademc1290 coronalc1330 circlea1340 garland?a1366 coronaclea1400 crowneta1425 crownalc1443 chapleta1464 circlet1481 cronet1519 cronicle1569 graundcie1592 anadem1598 coronet1599 carcanet1602 frontlet1610 circuita1616 rosary1651 tiar1660 tiara1718 ferronière1831 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie vi. Concl. 283 Twixt an Earle and Vicounts Frontilets The ods is like: so needlesse to be learn'd. 2. a. = forehead n. 1. Now only of animals. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > forehead foreheadc1000 frontlet1659 front1826 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 378 Like the smooth-faced fontes, fluvia, stagna, and lacus's of a land, that lyes with never a wrinckle upon their frontlets. 1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 14 A fairer species..Of shorter limb, and frontlet more ornate. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 6 The antler'd monarch of the waste..Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. xvi. 259 We can recognise the horns and frontlets of the elk. 1858 G. MacDonald Phantastes 65 From frontlet to tail, the horse likewise shone red. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 228 A very evil-looking beast..with a development of horn remarkable even in that forest of frontlets. b. Ornithology. The margin of the head, behind the bill, of birds, generally clothed with rigid bristles. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > head > part of pileum1872 frontlet1874 cap1889 pileus1890 1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 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 transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > façade frontispiece1598 frontal1786 frontlet1808 1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xx. 271 The antique buildings, climbing high, Whose Gothic frontlets sought the sky. 1830 W. 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > altar cloth > [noun] > border of frontlet1536 society > faith > artefacts > cloths, carpets, cushions > cloth (general) > altar cloth > [noun] > at front > over upper part frontlet1536 frontier1618 superfrontal1847 1536 Reg. Riches Cathedral of Sarum in E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses (1771) 199 A purpure cloth, with an ymage of the Crucifix..with a divers frontlet, having in every end two white Leopards. 1549 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 246 Item on corporaxe cloth & ij tasslys. Item one lyttell frountlett of ffustyan. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 305 One frontlet may serve with a variety of frontals. 1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 269 Frontlets may be sewn on the front of these linen cloths so as to hang over the edge. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1478
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