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frontispiece

[fruhn-tis-pees, fron-] / ˈfrʌn tɪsˌpis, ˈfrɒn- /


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

From Science Daily Feb. 13, 2024

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

From Washington Post Apr. 21, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2022

When Wheatley’s “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral” was published, it included a frontispiece that is believed to have been based on Moorhead’s portrait of her.

From New York Times Mar. 19, 2022

The frontispiece makes clear that the orbis is a globe, but the plural terrae implies a collection of maps of different countries.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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