Frontispiece

['frʌntɪspiːs] or ['frʌntɪspis]

(noun.) front illustration facing the title page of a book.

(noun.) an ornamental facade.

Checker: Melanie--From WordNet

(n.) The part which first meets the eye

(n.) The principal front of a building.

(n.) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.

Editor: Lou

n. (archit.) the principal face of a building: a figure or engraving in front of a book.—v.t. to put as a frontispiece to furnish with such.

Editor: Randolph

There was a frontispiece to the volume, representing Abraham sacrificing Isaac. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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