frontlet

[ fruhnt-lit ]

noun

1. Also a decorative band, ribbon, or the like, worn across the forehead:

   The princess wore a richly bejeweled frontlet.

2. the forehead of an animal.
3. Ornithology. the forehead when marked by a different color or texture of the plumage.
4. Judaism. the phylactery worn on the forehead.

frontlet

/ ˈfrʌntlɪt /

noun

1. Also calledfrontal a small decorative loop worn on a woman's forehead, projecting from under her headdress, in the 15th century
2. the forehead of an animal, esp of a bird when it is a different colour from the rest of the head
3. the decorated border of an altar frontal
4. Judaism a phylactery worn on the forehead See also tefillah

Word History and Origins

Origin of frontlet¹

1425–75; late Middle English frontlet < Old French, diminutive of frontel frontal

Word History and Origins

Origin of frontlet¹

C15: from Old French frontelet a little frontal

Example Sentences

King Charles II further ordered that Queen Cockacoeske be given a crown with a silver frontlet, jewelry and royal garments to symbolize her authority as queen.

From Washington Post

A Klawock city official, a Haida who took up carving and “Indian dancing” after he gave up drinking, sat working on a small frontlet, which he planned to trade for ceremonial leggings.

From The New Yorker

Each bullock had a bundle of merchandise slung on either side, and the frontlet of the leading animal was adorned with strings of blue beads and shells.

From Project Gutenberg

The crested leader, proud and high, Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky, A moment gazed adown the dale, A moment snuffed the tainted gale; Then, as the headmost foe appeared.

From Project Gutenberg

And would'st thou have me in that mirror look, Shadowing the first page in thy destiny, Or weave a frontlet to Fate's Album-book?

From Project Gutenberg