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frontipiece

frontipiece is the dated form of frontispiece.

Meaning of frontispiece

Noun

frontispiece (plural frontispieces)

  1. An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.
    • The viaduct was illustrated as a frontispiece to THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE of September, 1938. [In this case, the frontispiece is between the title page and the first article.]1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 163
  2. (archaic) The title page of a book.
  3. A façade, especially an ornamental one.
  4. A small ornamental pediment, especially at the top of a window or door.
  5. (archaic, humorous, slang) A person's face.
    • He carries on his frontispiece the indubitable marks of a money-dealer. His is one of those peculiar faces […]1844, George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis, The New Mirror, volume 3, page 99

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Forms of frontipiece

pluralfrontipieces

Questions about frontipiece

What is frontipiece the dated form of?
Frontipiece is the dated form of frontispiece.

Words near frontipiece in the dictionary

  1. fronting off
  2. fronting on
  3. fronting oneself off
  4. fronting up
  5. frontings
  6. frontipiece
  7. frontipieces
  8. frontish
  9. frontispice
  10. frontispices
  11. frontispiece

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frontipiece (page history and authors); frontispiece (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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