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noun

Frontlet n.

A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. "They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes."

A frown (likened to a frontlet). (R. & Poetic) "What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown."

(Zool.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.

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"Frontlet" Quotes from Famous Books

... carpet-bag and bagger occupy the land, And prove the touring season actively begun; His personnel and purpose can none misunderstand, For each upon his frontlet bears his ...

— Poems - Vol. IV • Hattie Howard

... colour of it (Rev 10:1; Eze 1). But why doth he wear the rainbow upon his head; but to show, that the sign, that the everlastingness of the covenant of grace is only to be found in him; that he wears it as a mitre or frontlet of gold, and can always plead it with acceptance to God, and for the subduing of the world and good ...

— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan

... Agamemnon's miserable fate Had surely met me in my own abode, But for thy gracious warning, pow'r divine! Come then—Devise the means; teach me, thyself, The way to vengeance, and my soul inspire With daring fortitude, as when we loos'd Her radiant frontlet from the brows of Troy. Would'st thou with equal zeal, O Pallas! aid 470 Thy servant here, I would encounter thrice An hundred enemies, let me but perceive Thy dread divinity my prompt ally. Him answer'd then Pallas caerulean-eyed. And such I will be; not unmark'd by me, (Let once our time of enterprize ...

— The Odyssey of Homer • Homer

... car. They are usually dirty and shabby, but occasionally we see one that makes a good picture. The bullocks that draw it are milk-white, and have the hanging dewlap, which adds so greatly to the appearance of the animal; the horns are painted blue, and the forehead is adorned with a frontlet of large purple glass beads, while bouquets of flowers are stuck on either side of the head, after the manner of the rosettes worn by the ...

— Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay • Miss Emma Roberts

Words linked to "Frontlet" : adornment, frontal