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frontispieces

frontispieces is the plural 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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Questions about frontispieces

What is frontispieces the plural of?
Frontispieces is the plural of frontispiece.

Words near frontispieces in the dictionary

  1. frontish
  2. frontispice
  3. frontispices
  4. frontispiece
  5. frontispieced
  6. frontispieces
  7. frontispiecing
  8. frontlash
  9. frontlashes
  10. frontless
  11. frontlessly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frontispieces (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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