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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



... golden chain I'll round it fling When Rama's flight makes Bharat king: Yea, polished links of finest gold, When once the wished for prize I hold With naught to fear and none to hate, Thy hump, dear maid, shall decorate. A golden frontlet wrought with care, And precious jewels shalt thou wear: Two lovely robes around thee fold, And walk a Goddess to behold, Bidding the moon himself compare His beauty with a face so fair. With scent of precious sandal sweet Down to the nails upon thy feet, First of the household thou shalt go ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... to his cloak and from a wallet took out three leather cases, two of which he opened and placed on the table. The first contained a ring, the second a frontlet. "Of so excellent a nature hath been thy entertainment," said the Jew, "thou makest me to forget my gifts," and taking up the frontlet he handed it to Antipas. "This is a gift for the High Priest. Look thou ...
— The Coming of the King • Bernie Babcock
... the depth I desired. There was a half-yard of bank that rose vertically above the surface; and this was sufficient to shelter either my own head, as I stood erect, or the frontlet of my horse. Should the channel continue of uniform depth as far as the camp, the approach would be easy indeed: and, for certain hydrographic reasons, I was under ...
— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid
... great thy city, Kamarina, with its fostered folk, hath honoured six twin altars in great feasts of the gods with sacrifices of oxen and five-day contests of games, with chariots of horses and of mules and with the steed of single frontlet[2]. ...
— The Extant Odes of Pindar • Pindar


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