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Frontlet   Listen
noun
Frontlet  n.  
1.
A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. "They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes."
2.
A frown (likened to a frontlet). (R. & Poetic) "What makes that frontlet on? Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown."
3.
(Zool.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.





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"Frontlet" Quotes from Famous Books



... them were very dirty, and some were wet with snow. But he put them all in one pile, and then with the help of the spirit, he made them all look clean. Then he made beaded moccasins from some of the scraps; leggings and a coat from some others. At last a frontlet with feathers sticking in it for the head. He gathered up snow and dirt, and filled the moccasins and the rest of the suit with it. The spirit changed the whole thing into a man,—a fine-looking warrior, to whom was ...
— Thirty Indian Legends • Margaret Bemister
... with white frontlet plumes came round the Rotunda corner, galloping. A tiny coffin flashed by. In a hurry to bury. A mourning coach. Unmarried. Black for the married. Piebald for bachelors. Dun for ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce


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