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Meanings of frontlet in английском

испанский
cinta para la frente
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Band of fabric draped over the head and hanging or pinned up at the sides, often of black velvet and later decorated with jewels or needlework, as part of women's headdresses in Northern Europe in 15th-16th centuries.

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cinta para la frente
Usage of frontlet in английском
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At last a frontlet with feathers sticking in it for the head.
Thirty Indian Legends
2
In place of the handle was a hook, which fastened to the leather frontlet.
The Twin Hells / A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and...
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Over this she wore a prettily-conceived coif, with a frontlet.
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1
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He put a bow and arrows in its hands, and the frontlet on its head.
Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian
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The first contained a ring, the second a frontlet.
The Coming of the King
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Her black domino and frontlet are of interest.
Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)
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Now he seemed to wear her words like a frontlet, branded in the mantling scarlet of his brow.
V. V.'s Eyes
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Princess Stéphanie was charming in her white tulle dress, with silver stars, trimmed with orange flowers, and her diamond frontlet.
The Court of the Empress Josephine
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This piece of head-wear was turban-shaped, striped, of course, with a leather frontlet, on which was fastened the mining lamp.
The Twin Hells / A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and...
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One butting with his carious and brittle old frontlet; the other pushing with its silly head before its horns are sprouted.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
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The throat vies with the radiant topaz, while the band on the forehead rivals in brilliancy the frontlet of every other species.
The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
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In the tent he found a maiden sitting, with a golden frontlet on her forehead and a gold ring on her hand.
Bulfinch's Mythology
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Of some sorts the branches bended downwards, like an archway; of other sorts the boughs curved upwards, like a red deer's frontlet.
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
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A lady was in it, with a gold frontlet on her brow and her cloak was fastened with a broad golden brooch.
The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Irel...
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I unbound my frontlet, taking off the black phylactery, whose memorable sentence, written in white letters, had been visible to myself alone.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 / A Magaz...
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I have in my possession a tuft of hair, from the frontlet of a rather small bull bison, which measures 22½ inches in length.
The Extermination of the American Bison
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Translations for frontlet
испанский
cinta para la frente
Frontlet through the time