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Frontispiece
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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.
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