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an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
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Architecture. a façade, or a part or feature of a façade, often highlighted by ornamentation.
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Frontispiece
is always a great word to know.
So is arcade. Does it mean:
| a series of arches supported on piers or columns; an arched or covered passageway |
| a supporting part of a structure; the area of contact between a supporting beam and other underlying support |
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frontispiece
1597, "decorated entrance of a building," from M.Fr. frontispice, probably from It. frontespizio and L.L. frontispicium "facade," originally "a view of the forehead, judgment of character through facial features," from L. frons (gen. frontis) "forehead" + specere "to look at" (see
EXPAND scope (1)). Sense of "illustration facing a book's title page" first recorded 1682.
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