frons

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For the word comes from the Latin frons, "the forehead."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

The shadow then thrown across— "Sed frons læta parum"— is well given, with a variation, by— "But gloomy were his eyes."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

II Pascuntur armenta commodissime in nemoribus, ubi virgulta et frons multa.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

Pasquin laughed:— 'Angulus est Petri, Pauli frons tota.

From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Hoc uno infelix, et felix cetera; nusquam Laetior aut caeli frons geniusve soli.'

From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir