† suffrontn.
Obsolete.
? An altar-frontal.
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hatchOE
frontal1381
pall?a1475
antepend1501
pendle1501
stole1513
suffront1516
altar cloth1522
front1533
altar front1539
antependium1594
fronton1749
altar frontal1836
altar facing1856
1516 in G. Oliver Lives Bps. Exeter etc. (1861) 364 Suffront, stayned de blodio bokeram cum ymagine Crucifixi.
1668 Bp. Hacket Let. in T. T. Carter Life J. Kettlewell (1895) 49 In velvet, purple and azure, fifty pounds worth..to serve as paraphront or suffront, and carpet for the Altar.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 107 Paraphront, Suffront, for the Hangings above and beneath the Table.
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n.1516- not the marrying kind
- not the only onion in the hash
- not the only onion in the stew
- not the sharpest knife in the drawer
- not the sharpest tool in the box
- not to
- not to amount to much
- not to bat an eye, eyelid
- nonpickable
- nonpigmented
- nonplace
- nonplacental
- nonplaceter
- nonplaceting
- nonplanar
- nonplanarity
- nonplay
- nonplaying
- nonplays
- nonplural
- nonplus
- nonplused
- nonpluses
- nonplushed
- nonplusing