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frontlets

frontlets is the plural of frontlet.

Meaning of frontlet

Noun

frontlet (plural frontlets)

  1. (obsolete) The forehead.
  2. The forehead of an animal, especially of a deer or stag (including the antlers).
  3. An ornament worn on the forehead.
  4. A bandage or medical preparation worn around the head.
    • Frontlets are known to every goodwife: rose-water and vinegar, with a little woman's milk, and nutmegs grated upon a rose-cake applied to both temples.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

Questions about frontlets

What is frontlets the plural of?
Frontlets is the plural of frontlet.

Words near frontlets in the dictionary

  1. frontlash
  2. frontlashes
  3. frontless
  4. frontlessly
  5. frontlet
  6. frontlets
  7. frontline
  8. Frontline State
  9. Frontline States
  10. frontliner
  11. frontliners

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