Frontispiece

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An illustration that faces or immediately precedes the title page of a book, book section, or magazine.
  • noun. A title page.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A façade, especially an ornamental façade.
  • noun. A small ornamental pediment, as on top of a door or window.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To furnish with a frontispiece.
  • To use as a frontispiece: as, to frontispiece a map.
  • noun. That which is seen in front, or which directly presents itself to the eye.
  • noun. A print or engraving placed in front of the title of a book.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The principal front of a building.
  • noun. An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.
  • noun. The title page of a book.
  • noun. A façade, especially an ornamental one.
  • noun. A small pediment of which is ornamental, especially on the top of a window or door.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. front illustration facing the title page of a book
  • noun. an ornamental facade
  • Word Usage
    "Blair's The Grave, "The Reunion of the Soul & the Body" and "The Soul hovering over the Body reluctantly parting with Life" (56-58), but does not reproduce or specifically discuss "Death's Door," and includes nine facsimiles: the frontispiece is a reduction of"
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