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)

Hence the end of the roll, or volume, was called frons, a term of frequent recurrence in Ovid and Martial, and not always rightly understood.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

Linschoten repeats the like, and one of his plates is entitled Habitus Abissinorum quibus loco Baptismatis frons inuritur.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

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)

This assembly, which overthrows kings and kingdoms, has not even the physiognomy and aspect of a grave legislative body,—nec color imperii, nec frons erat ulla senatûs.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund