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FRONTISPIECE (through the French, from Med. Lat. frontispicium, a front view, frons, frontis, forehead or front, and specere, to look at; the English spelling is a mistaken adaptation to " piece ")

FRONTISPIECE (through the See also:
FRENCH
FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)
French, from Med. See also:
LAT
Lat. frontispicium, a front view, frons, frontis, forehead or front, and specere, to look at; the See also:
ENGLISH
English spelling is a mistaken See also:
ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)
adaptation to " piece ") , an architectural See also:

TERM

term for the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal front of a See also:

BUILDING

building, but more generally applied to a richly decorated entrance See also:

DOORWAY (corresponding to the Gr. Iran, Lat. porte)

doorway, if projecting slightly only in front of the See also:

main See also:

wall, otherwise portal or See also:

PORCH (through the Fr. porehe, from Lat. porticus; the Ital. equivalent is portico, corresponding to the Gr. vapOi ; Ger. Vorhalle)

porch would be a more correct term. The word, however, is more used for a decorative See also:

DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design or the See also:

REPRESENTATION

representation of some subject connected with the sub-stance of a See also:

BOOK

book and placed as the first illustrated See also:

page. A design at the end of the See also:

CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter of a book is called a tail-piece.

End of Article: FRONTISPIECE (through the French, from Med. Lat. frontispicium, a front view, frons, frontis, forehead or front, and specere, to look at; the English spelling is a mistaken adaptation to " piece ")

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