frontlet
IPA: frˈʌntɫʌt
noun
- (obsolete) The forehead.
- The forehead of an animal, especially of a deer or stag (including the antlers).
- An ornament worn on the forehead.
- A bandage or medical preparation worn around the head.
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Examples of "frontlet" in Sentences
- White horses with white frontlet plumes came round the Rotunda corner, galloping.
- Black, a popular color at this time, accents her turret and frontlet, collar, cuffs, and wide hem.
- They made the frontlet for the holy diadem of pure gold, and incised upon it the seal inscription: “Holy to the Lord.”
- Her turret, from which cascades a transparent veil, terminates upon a frontlet, a wide band of cloth that frames her face.
- One kind or phylactery was called a "frontlet," and was composed of four pieces of parchment; on the first of which was written, Ex 12: 2-10; on the second, Ex 12: 11-21; on the third, De
- Kneeling down on the rug before her trunk, Lia searched among her weapons and armor for her rank insignia—a frontlet made of animal skin featuring a three-gem triad embedded in the center.
- Moreover, as any damage done to the horse will involve his rider in extreme peril, the horse also should be clad in armour — frontlet, breastplate, and thigh-pieces; 165 which latter may at the same time serve as cuisses for the mounted man.
- Instead of being clothed in the national fashion, with a frontlet of macaw feathers, bow, and blow-tube, have they not adopted the American costume of white cotton trousers, and a cotton poncho woven by their wives, who have become thorough adepts in its manufacture?
- Of gold was the yoke that linked the necks of his steeds whiter than the snow; and on his shoulders flashed his targe with figures welded in gold; while a gorgon of bronze like that which gleams from the aegis of the goddess was bound upon the frontlet of his horses, ringing out its note of fear with many a bell.
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