frontispiece
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tɪsˌpis, ˈfrɒn- noun
1.
an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
2.
Architecture. a façade, or a part or feature of a façade, often highlighted by ornamentation.
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| —n | |
| 1. | an illustration facing the title page of a book |
| 2. | the principal façade of a building; front |
| 3. | a pediment, esp an ornamented one, over a door, window, etc |
| [C16 frontispice, from French, from Late Latin frontispicium façade, inspection of the forehead, from Latin frōns forehead + specere to look at; influenced by | |
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Frontispiece
is always a great word to know.
So is balustrade. Does it mean:
| a slablike member beneath the base of a column or pier or a square base of a pedestal |
| a railing with supporting balusters or posts |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
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
scope (1)). Sense of "illustration facing a book's title page" first recorded 1682.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
He used an engraving of himself in laborer's clothes as the frontispiece.
Several seventeenth-century editions of her works used engravings based on this painting as a frontispiece.
They are of wood, but the remainder of the niche and frontispiece are of plaster.
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