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frontispiece

noun as in façade

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The picture is well known in France as the frontispiece of Rimbaud’s “Poésies Complètes,” which was published posthumously in 1895.

This research will be featured as a frontispiece in the upcoming issue of Advanced Materials and has secured both domestic and international patents.

After all, even Martin Droeshout’s frontispiece portrait for the First Folio shows a face that looks, to some eyes, like a mask.

The frontispieces are prints augmented with gouache and colored pencil, which is characteristic of Wolfe’s eclectic approach.

Recast in vivid color, the frontispiece is enlarged to life-size scale, swapping out a generic female face for a specific one.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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