Crossword clues for frontlet
frontlet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frontlet \Front"let\, n. [OF. frontelet brow band, dim. of frontel, frontal. See Frontal, n.]
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A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead.
They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
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A frown (likened to a frontlet). [R. & Poetic]
What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown.
--Shak. (Zo["o]l.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"headband," late 15c., from Old French frontelet, diminutive of frontel "forehead, front of a helmet, hairband" (Modern French fronteau), from Late Latin frontale "an ornament for the forehead," from frons "forehead; front" (see front (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The forehead. 2 The forehead of an animal, especially of a deer or stag (including the antlers). 3 An ornament worn on the forehead. 4 A bandage or medical preparation worn around the head.
WordNet
n. an adornment worn on the forehead [syn: frontal]
Usage examples of "frontlet".
Unfortunately, the scaly head of the Aliansa leader with its horned frontlet was a distant, uncertain target.
To the stunned spectators, the ceremonial frontlet seemed to have come to malignant life, forcing the leader's head back farther, farther, until his unsealed throat with its tawny fur was fully exposed.
In the tent he found a maiden sitting, with a golden frontlet on her forehead and a gold ring on her hand.
And I approached the castle, and, there I beheld two youths with yellow curling hair, each with a frontlet of gold upon his head, and clad in a garment of yellow satin.
And he beheld a maiden, with yellow, curling hair, and a frontlet of gold upon her head.
A wide buckle of strips of bone was bound around her waist and she also had a kind of frontlet running from the neckline of her garment down to that girdle.
She tore the tiring from her head and flung it from her, the frontlet and net with its plaited band, and the veil which golden Venus had given her on the day when Hector took her with him from the house of Eetion, after having given countless gifts of wooing for her sake.
Peering fearfully from his covert, he could discern no features beneath the frontlets of the dark helms that were bowed toward him: but eye-like spots of yellowish-red fire, restless as marsh-lights, shifted to and from in void shadow where the faces should have been.
Welland's chestnuts, with big white favours on their frontlets, curvetting and showing off at the far end of the canvas tunnel.
Her body was the silk of his prayer shawl, her breath was Sabbath spices, and her fingers were as cool as the leather frontlets on his arm and forehead.