About The Word Frontispiece
Learn about the word Frontispiece to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Frontispiece definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Frontispiece
| Frontispiece Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Frontispiece?
[n] front illustration facing the title page of a book
[n] an ornamental facade Synonyms | Synonyms for Frontispiece: Related Terms | Find terms related to Frontispiece: anteriority | avant-propos | bold front | brave face | brave front | breakthrough | display | exordium | facade | face | facet | facia | fore | forefront | foreground | forehand | foreland | forepart | forequarter | foreside | foreword | front | front elevation | front man | front matter | front page | front view | frontage | frontal | frontier | head | heading | innovation | introduction | lap | leap | obverse | overture | postulate | preamble | preface | prefix | prefixture | preliminary | prelude | premise | presupposition | priority | proem | prolegomena | prolegomenon | prolepsis | prologue | proscenium | protasis | verse | voluntary | window dressing See Also | facade | front | frontage Frontispiece In Webster's Dictionary \Fron"tis*piece\, n. [F. frontispice, LL.
frontispicium beginning, front of a church, fr. L. frons
front + spicere, specere, to look at, view: cf. It.
frontispizio. See {Front} and {Spy}.]
The part which first meets the eye; as:
(a) (Arch.) The principal front of a building. [Obs. or R.]
(b) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first
page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage
itself.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Petaurista petaurista ‐ East Indian…
- Wallace stevens ‐ United States poet…
- Crosstie ‐ one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track;…
- Whitish ‐ tending toward white [adj] resembling milk in color or cloudiness;…
- Lepista irina ‐ an edible agaric with large silky white caps and…
- Ponka ‐ the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Ponca people [n] a member of…
- Moss green ‐ of a moderate somewhat dull…
- Navy base ‐ base of operations for a…
- Mary ii ‐ Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; she was the eldest…
- Monopolization ‐ domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion…