frontlet

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Old French frontelet, diminutive of frontel. Compare armlet.

White horses with white frontlet plumes came round the Rotunda corner, galloping. — Ulysses, James Joyce
The MS. reads: "There hung the wild-cat's brindled hide, Above the elk's branched brow and skull, And frontlet of the forest bull." — The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott
Of some sorts the branches bended downwards, like an archway; of other sorts the boughs curved upwards, like a red deer's frontlet. — Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

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